SHREVEPORT, La. - At Akin’s Nursery in Shreveport, owner Jennifer McGimsey says one of the biggest challenges local gardeners face is right under their feet: Northwest Louisiana’s heavy clay soil.

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A federal government shutdown threatens to end FoodShare benefits for nearly 700,000 Wisconsin residents. U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden urged state lawmakers to use state funds to cover the benefits, a ...

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Every year I hear the same thing, “We like to get our trees in the ground in the spring when everything starts growing.” I ...

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Barack Obama is celebrating Democratic wins earlier this week and saying they are a sign that American voters are rejecting the Trump agenda. In a surprise appearance at a gathering ...

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Lea Michele returns to Broadway's Imperial Theatre, where she first heard a song from “Chess” as a child. Now, decades later, she's performing in the same musical at the same ...