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House Democrats have signed a letter opposing the Save Our Bacon (SOB) Act, arguing that it would "usurp the longstanding ...

Patrick Hibbard remembers sitting in solitary confinement at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center, a ...

As Fairbanks heads into the bustle of Thanksgiving week, we’re once again entering that familiar sequence of shopping days: Black Friday, Shop Local Saturday, and Cyber Monday. The ...

I was 12 years old on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. I had a crush on Linda, the girl in my 7th ...

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Queens parishioner Karllen Lawrence celebrates her Dominican roots through “Caribbean ABCs,” a children’s book inspired by ...

While looking through her 1-year-old niece’s books, one woman got a shock after discovering what an alphabet book had picked to represent the letter X. Karen Thomas Mahoney, from North Carolina, ...

When people think of Weld RE-4 School District, Windsor and Severance often come to mind as fast-growing, vibrant communities. But there’s another area in our district that’s just as important: West ...

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...