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What beautiful weather we are having, and it looks like it is going to continue for at least another week or so.

"On Turpentine Lane" is the first Elinor Lipman book I've read. I found it to be a wonderful comedy of manners with a dash of romance and, to my mind, a feel v…

Roofing jobs are some of the most important you can do on your home. The roof plays a vital role both in protecting your home from the elements and presenting …

A designer technique called color blocking, or color mapping, is a trick of the trade that, if used effectively, can help create a space that is colorful and c…

The little guy -- or at least the little guy with a few hundred bucks to sink into the stock market -- gets a movie to cheer with "Dumb Money," the real story …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It's trivia night at your local bar, and you're asked to name a sport that emerged in the 1930s, sold out stadiums and arenas and graced net…

As the air turns crisp (for this week at least) and the leaves hint at a transformation into a riot of fiery hues, I welcome fall with open arms. It's a time f…

CHICAGO -- Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted Street, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers danc…

Mid-Missouri author Jeremy Amick's new book, "Lutherans of Cole County: A History," maps out the immigration of early German Lutheran settlers to the Cole Coun…

Reports from St. Mary's Hospital Auxiliary, Jane Randolph Jefferson Chapter of the DAR and Aces and Spaces Duplicate Bridge Club.

New fiction and non-fiction at MRRL

Developing an early interest in playing drums, Eddy Jones became like many working musicians -- employed at a full-time job while performing with rock bands in…

PHOENIX (AP) -- Andrea Nissen is trying to prepare her 65-year-old husband, who has Alzheimer's disease, for a solo flight from Arizona to Oklahoma to visit fa…

Kenneth Branagh indulges in the kind of macabre theatricality that only a crumbling Venetian palazzo on a stormy Halloween night can provide in "A Haunting in …

Travel disasters can come in nearly any form, turning your vacation into a giant headache in a hurry.