We’re approaching the shortest day of the year, Dec. 21, and the nights are chilly. It’s time to review the year in the garden and take a much-needed break from weeding, planting, pruning and digging.

RECOMMENDATIONS. IT’S FRIDAY, AND THAT MEANS IT’S TIME TO EXPLORE OUTDOORS. BRIAN HICKEY JOINS US WITH A LOOK AT HIGHWAY 50 AND SOME EASY TO MISS NATURAL BEAUTY. THEY ARE PART OF THE PATCHWORK OF ...

In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books. By Alex Williams Fern Michaels, a mother of five in suburban New ...

Fern Michaels, the hugely popular author whose nearly 200 romance and thriller novels made her a fixture on best-seller lists for decades, has died. She was 92. Michaels died at her home in ...

Trump has declined to rule out sending U.S. troops into Venezuela, but his own team says he’s all talk. Reporter Pentagon and White House advisers have poured cold water on President Donald Trump’s ...

A new event will give local gentlemen an evening of celebrity status while shining the spotlight on several area nonprofits.

It's the no-BBC-expenses-spared quiz where kids compete against their parents for a treat from the Bank of Mum and Dad. If the child loses, the adults get to choose a forfeit. It's the game that could ...

Jade spoons and pendants, Paso del Macho, Mexico (Courtesy Evan Parker) A cache of artifacts found beneath the central plaza at the site of Paso del Macho in the northern part of Mexico’s Yucatan ...

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