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A wide main street stretches out with wooden storefronts, swinging saloon doors, and the occasional horse tied to a hitching post. A stagecoach drives by ...

Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather, or is just about to be. Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record ...

IDW is the same publisher that licenses “My Little Pony,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Sonic the Hedgehog.” The company rose to prominence in 2002 with the vampire classic “30 Days of Night,” ...

Hairstylist Tiffany Barrios, who color-treated Alysa Liu’s hair at Pony Studios Co. shortly before the figure skater left for the Winter Olympics in Milan and won gold, poses on a salon chair in ...

There’s a special kind of joy that comes from paying pocket change for something that would normally cost a week’s worth of coffee money, and Savers in Hoffman Estates delivers that joy on a scale ...

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Wearing the right shorts can make marathon training easier. The FlipBelt Comp Elite has pockets galore for long run marathon training. The thigh and rear pocket debate has come to a crux for ...

Katherine Short, the eldest daughter of legendary comedian and actor Martin Short, has died at 42. A representative for the Only Murders in the Building star shared a statement confirming the news and ...