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ORLANDO, Fla. — The idea, like many ideas often do, emerged out of a long talk over beer in 2014.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. — While the Straka family chats around the kitchen table, its 5-year-old German shepherd, Essie, relaxes in her corner doggy bed. Life is good.

What was the name of your favorite teacher?

Dream fulfilled

The middle of February is time for early-bird gardeners to start peas.

PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. (AP) — Police are searching for one person who remains missing after a small plane crashed in the Long Island Sound, less than a mile off the New York shoreline.

YPSILANTI, Mich. — Earl Johnston was 12 when he got his first job, a paper route that he quickly expanded by “buying out” additional routes from other, less industrious boys.

YPSILANTI, Mich. — Earl Johnston was 12 when he got his first job, a paper route that he quickly expanded by “buying out” additional routes from other, less industrious boys.

My father used to say that you never put your hand on a hot stove more than once.

Here is a partial schedule of DVD availability, when they came out and when they are scheduled to come out. Release dates are subject to change:

Have you ever suspected a co-worker, in-law, or adult step-child of trying to rip a hole in a relationship you cherish? This person may be jealous and plotting to destroy what you’ve taken yea…

CHICAGO — The old Army cook and the injured artilleryman sat shooting the breeze at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago.

The Kelso School District may have to cut as much as $1.6 million from next year’s budget, the first time the district has had to slash spending in four years.

On the last day of the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese armed forces were in disarray. Duc Huynh, a South Vietnamese helicopter pilot, flew to the capitol city of Saigon, but “most of the higher …

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Police say multiple people have died from several shootings that appear to be related in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area.

A small group of Woodland philanthropists has launched an effort to fight the “brain drain” of young people from rural communities.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Officials in Fiji scrambled to assess damage Sunday in the wake of a ferocious cyclone that tore through the Pacific island chain, leaving at least three dead an…

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Speaking via Skype from Russia, Edward Snowden tells an audience of supporters in New Hampshire that he is willing to be extradited to the United States if the federal …

NEW YORK (AP) — About 10,000 supporters of a former police officer convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell rallied in New York in one of several demonstrations hel…

PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A car crash in western Michigan left three generations of one family dead on Saturday including the grandmother, her daughter and 9-month-old granddaughter.

At least one positive has come from the flames that consumed Journey Seventh-day Adventist Church’s elaborate “Journey to Bethlehem” set last year — an improved Easter production.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on two NYPD officers shot in a confrontation early Saturday with a gunman who crashed his car into a police vehicle, according to police (all times local):

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — No one was injured Saturday night as police said a fistfight turned into a shooting at a Columbia mall Saturday as several presidential campaigns partied about a dozen mi…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on reports of shots fired at a shopping mall outside the capital city (all times local):

Carolyn Caines’ family scrapbook reads more like an abridged history of the Kelso-Longview area’s early years.