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  • The bathroom's an ideal place for many houseplants. Some are even happy in the shower

    December 19, 2023 - 5:57 AM

    The term bathroom décor often conjures thoughts of decorative shelving, a framed print or perhaps a colorful shower curtain. But what about houseplants?

  • The `Me Space': Finding small spots at home to call your own

    November 02, 2022 - 7:42 AM

    It’s not a “she shed” or a “man cave.” More of a “me space.”

  • School districts move to ease teacher stress, burnout

    August 27, 2022 - 1:10 PM

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — With Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” blaring in the background, about 20 New Hampshire educators grabbed wooden sticks and began pounding their tables to the beat.

  • Bacteria that causes rare tropical disease found in US soil

    July 27, 2022 - 12:47 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — A germ that causes a rare and sometimes deadly disease — long thought to be confined to tropical climates — has been found in soil and water in the continental United States, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.

  • Aromatherapy spray linked to US deaths faces recall

    October 22, 2021 - 3:17 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials may have solved the mystery of how four people in different states came down with a serious tropical disease even though none had traveled internationally: an aromatherapy spray imported from India.

  • Man who pled guilty in 4 spa deaths was in court for other 4

    August 30, 2021 - 11:58 AM

    ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people at Atlanta area massage businesses is already destined to spend the rest of his life locked up after pleading guilty in four of the killings. But he faces more charges — and a possible death sentence — in the other four slayings.

  • Oxygen plant among earthquake-damaged buildings in Haiti

    August 19, 2021 - 9:05 PM

    LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — As if Haiti’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake, a tropical storm and the coronavirus pandemic weren’t enough, the temblor damaged the only medical oxygen plant in the southern part of the country.

  • Man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life

    July 28, 2021 - 4:39 PM

    CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people, mostly women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in four of the killings and was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

  • Prosecutor plans to seek death penalty in spa shootings

    May 11, 2021 - 4:17 PM

    ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday on murder charges by two separate grand juries, and one prosecutor filed notice that she’ll also seek hate crime charges and the death penalty.

  • EXPLAINER: Why Georgia attack spurs fears in Asian Americans

    March 17, 2021 - 5:39 PM

    CHICAGO - The shootings at three Georgia massage parlours and spas that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, come on the heels of a recent wave of attacks against Asian Americans since the coronavirus entered the United States.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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