In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common. Some teachers focus instead on selected passages — a concession to perceptions of shorter ...

The Israeli government braced for an expected surge in Hezbollah rocket attacks as the two enemies continued to trade ...

Paratroopers from the Dutch Air Mobile Brigade and 12 other NATO nations took part in jumps watched by WWII veterans and about 60,000 spectators.

Paul Hammel: Immigration is a hot topic in this election year, but statistics and officials say it’s been good for Nebraska A ...

Community members filled the Lexington Public Library Tuesday afternoon to hear JoAnn Bjorkman share her deeply personal story and discuss her book “Back from Broken.” ...

On Valentine's Day in 2004, when Kamala Harris was San Francisco's newly elected district attorney, she performed one of the ...

The song “Hip to Be Square” was released by the rock ‘n’ roll group Huey Lewis and the News in 1986. One verse of the lyrics is “They tell me … ...

As I write this article, today is National Grandparents Day. When I was a kid, my paternal grandpa lived in the same house as us and my maternal grandparents lived ...

Harvest Festival in Gothenburg had two events on Thursday at Lake Helen with a successful Rotary Pavilion dedication and hot dog feed and the 22nd Annual ...

It was the second time Big Bear Alpine Zoo animals were transported to the Living Desert during a wildfire. Each time, ...

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