Betsy Longenbaugh, a resident of Douglas, honed her writing skills as a newspaper reporter and in more recent years has researched and written about famous Alaska murders. Her first book ...

Danny Gene Owsley, age 75, of Versailles, passed away Friday, March 14, 2025, at Capital Region Medical Center surrounded by his family. He was born January 7, 1950, in Warsaw, Missouri ...

Books we're reading and loving this week Another constant – at least for the first 40 years of medicare’s evolution – was the tireless advocacy of Tommy Douglas, the long-time Saskatchewan ...

“Authority,” a new collection of reviews and essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu, showcases her smarts, humor and contempt. By Charles Finch The nominees for the ...

Mine came flooding back as I read Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud’s “The Cartoonists Club” and Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander’s “J vs. K.” By James Sturm Missing for decades from ...

Douglas Kiker, a contestant on “American Idol” Season 18 who memorably moved series judge Katy Perry to tears with his audition performance, has died. He was 32 years old. Kiker’s sisters ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...

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Emergency services raced to Appin West Colliery, in Douglas Park, at about 3am on Sunday following reports of an explosion. Two men were taken to Wollongong Hospital and the other two were ...

no big book-signing tour. The real world was now intruding horrifically. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Make Babette Kourelos's old ...

It’s been a long time coming but on Saturday, Historic St. Mary’s City will officially open the interior of its reconstructed Brick Chapel. A news release said the “milestone event marks the ...