Today is Friday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2025. There are 145 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2023, a series of wind-driven wildfires broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui, destroying the town of Lahaina and killing more than 100 people. Also on this date: In 1814, during ...

The intent of this article is to spur memories of living in small towns and communities in Michigan and northern Wisconsin. The lonesome wail of the passing train ignited my memories of days past. For many of us in upper Michigan and northern Wisconsin, life revolved around the web of ...

Let's take a tour of the 13th congressional district in Illinois. It starts in East St. Louis and then moves steadily north. By the time it gets to Springfield, home of Abraham Lincoln, about 90 miles away, it takes a sharp turn to the east, reaching Decatur and finally Champaign, itself ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — So-called mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic — and now scientists are using that Nobel Prize-winning technology to try to develop vaccines and treatments against a long list of diseases including cancer and cystic fibrosis. But this week, ...

Today is Thursday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2025. There are 146 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1974, French highwire artist Philippe Petit performed an unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, over 1,300 feet above the ground; the ...

August is usually downtime in Washington. Congress is in recess, the heat and humidity contribute to the desire to escape town for cooler weather, the president is normally somewhere else and cable news is focused on shark attacks. Not this August. Cable news, especially, along with some ...