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Opinion

Participation in high school sports climbs to an all-time high

Editorial

Each year since 1971, the National Federation of State High School Associations has conducted a high school athletics participation survey. On Monday, with practices and competitions underway locally in fall sports, NFHS announced that high school athletics participation in the U.S. has reached ...

Donald Trump is truly historic

Local columns

If you had to sum up President Trump's second term so far in one word, you could do worse than "epic." Trump may be on the path to the most consequential presidency since Ronald Reagan's. We don't know how it will end — an unforeseen crisis could upend everything — but the emphasis has ...

Judge denies DOJ request to unseal Epstein jury transcripts

Local columns

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge who presided over the sex trafficking case against financier Jeffrey Epstein has joined two other judges in rejecting the government's request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to the decades-long sexual abuse suffered by girls and young women who fell ...

Almanac for Aug. 21, 2025

Local columns

Today is Thursday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2025. There are 132 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people; scores of Black people were killed in retribution in the ...

Radon gas can pose a danger in homes

Editorial

Lung cancer is most preventable by not smoking. But what about being exposed to a colorless, odorless radioactive gas? Have you ever pondered about your lungs being poisoned slowly over time and eventually this form of ionizing radiation leads to cancer? Did you know that you could catch this ...