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  • Kimberly Palmer: How to make summer camp more affordable

    May 08, 2023 - 7:50 AM

    To create a fun but affordable summer for her daughters, ages 11 and 13, Flossie McCowald plans out camps well in advance. The Pennsylvania resident snags early bird discounts, takes advantage of a church-based sleepaway camp that offers scholarships and leverages sibling discounts.

  • Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID

    May 01, 2022 - 9:10 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Blazers in knit fabrics, pants with drawstrings or elastic waists, and polo shirts as the new button-down.

  • House moves toward OK of Dems' sweeping social, climate bill

    November 18, 2021 - 8:49 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats brushed aside months-long divisions and approached House passage of their expansive social and environment bill late Thursday, as President Joe Biden and his party neared a defining win in their drive to use their control of government to funnel its resources toward their domestic priorities.

  • Slain Marine who cradled baby at Kabul airport loved her job

    August 28, 2021 - 7:48 PM

    A woman who cradled a baby in her arms at the airport and posted on social media that she loved her job. A young husband with a child on the way. Another man who always wanted to be in the military. A man who planned to become a sheriff’s deputy when his deployment ended. Heart-wrenching details have emerged about some of the 13 U.S. troops killed in a horrific suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport, which also claimed the lives of more than 160 Afghans.

  • US communities reach out to homeless as liver disease surges

    March 12, 2019 - 8:41 AM

    WORCESTER, Mass. - This industrial city in central Massachusetts has had many nicknames through the years, including "the Heart of the Commonwealth" and "Wormtown." Among them was this less-known medical moniker: "Hepatitisville."

  • From snipers to moms: World War II exhibit focuses on women

    May 25, 2018 - 6:59 AM

    NATICK, Mass. - The terrors of World War II impacted most of the world's women, both on the home and battlefronts.

  • Studies shine light on mysterious placenta, how it goes awry

    August 12, 2016 - 12:33 AM

    WASHINGTON - Scientists carefully probe a placenta donated after birth, bluish umbilical cord still attached. This is the body's most mysterious organ, and inside lie clues about how it gives life — and how it can go awry, leading to stillbirth, preterm birth, even infections like the Zika virus, that somehow sneak past its protective barrier.

  • Digital afterlife: What happens to your email, other accounts when you die and don't specify?

    July 16, 2014 - 2:11 PM

    WASHINGTON - You've probably decided who gets the house or that family heirloom up in the attic when you die. But what about your email account and all those photos stored online?
  • 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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