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Classic rocker Steve Miller has canceled his U.S. tour because he said severe weather including extreme heat and unpredictable flooding poses a danger to his band, its fans and crew. The tour was set ...

Members of the Alva Tourism and Convention Development Committee met Wednesday to consider a request for funding and hear reports of past events. Chairman Melinda Barton opened the meeting with ...

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in ...

Secretariat died on Oct. 4, 1989. Therefore, all of the colts he sired would have been born no later than 1990. Any of his surviving children would, therefore, be 34 or 35 years old today. Considering ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Congress is testing the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts this week by aiming to pass President Donald Trump's request to claw back ...

When someone mentions compounding interest, most people think about how interest accrues on their savings account. Did you know however that the concept of compounding is actually applicable to so ...

I started collecting coins in 1962. Several of my high school classmates, including Doug Kletke and Darrell Keltner, shared the interest and we had a coin club for a short time. My favorite ...

Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday—Salisbury steak with brown gravy and mushrooms, mashed potatoes, green beans, hot roll, rosy applesauce (diabetic: unsweetened applesauce) Tuesday—BBQ ...

ERRORThe Little Red Hens hold a cornhole tournament for the adults at the Fourth of July festivities.

An off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in a Manhattan park on Saturday following an apparent robbery gone wrong, New York City police and federal officials say. The ...