Modern Life
Published on September 14, 2025 - Page 7
NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Book Foundation has announced 10 fiction books as finalists for this year's award.
Susan Choi's "Flashlight" is her...
Published on September 14, 2025 - Page 23
Federal incentives for home energy improvements are running out at the end of the year. So it's decision time for anyone who has been thinking about...
Published on September 14, 2025 - Page 23
If a knowledgeable observer trained his or her sights on my choices, what are the trouble spots they would identify? Here are some of the biggies. I...
Published on September 14, 2025 - Page 23
As autumn approaches, one may think of mums, asters, cornstalks and pumpkins. Many other ornamental plants can be incorporated into your fall decor,...
Published on September 14, 2025 - Page 23
Look for the Master Gardeners at the Mount Carmel Farmers' Market in Atlas, on Saturday, Sept. 20, and most other third Saturdays throughout the...
Published on September 14, 2025 - Page 23
Come to Berwick Innovation Center, 134 W. Front St., for a free, in-person presentation on Wednesday evening, Sept. 17, from 6-7:30.
Joe Mullen,...
Published on September 14, 2025 - Page 28
NEW YORK -- Sen. Cory Booker has expanded upon his historic Senate floor speech for an upcoming book.
"Stand" is to be published Nov. 11, St. Martin'...
Published on September 12, 2025 - Page 15
NEW YORK -- Americans would save roughly $100 billion a year in interest costs if President Donald Trump's campaign proposal to cap credit card...
Published on September 11, 2025 - Page 6
Jeremy Didier had taken her son to a psychologist for a possible ADHD evaluation when she spotted an article about women with the condition. As she...
Published on September 11, 2025 - Page 15
This idea of a carbon footprint comes up a lot in news coverage about personal climate impact.
The concept is simple: It includes anything you add to...
Published on September 10, 2025 - Page 4
KONIAKOW, Poland (AP) -- Wiesawa Juroszek was only 6 years old when she learned the intricate handicraft of lace crocheting from the women in her...
Published on September 9, 2025 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming in the United States is amping up the country's sweet tooth, a new study found.
When the temperature rises,...
Published on September 9, 2025 - Page 7
It's September, and I still haven't harvested a single red tomato. The beets are still grape-size and, so far, my four plants have produced only two...
Published on September 7, 2025 - Page 4
MILAN (AP) -- Thousands of ordinary admirers and VIPs paid their last respects Saturday to Giorgio Armani, remembered by Milan's mayor as a "man of...
Published on September 7, 2025 - Page 23
Most of what goes into U.S. landfills is organic waste, ranging from household food scraps to yard trimmings. That's a problem because in that...
Published on September 7, 2025 - Page 23
Saving can be difficult because of a cognitive bias known as hyperbolic discounting: our tendency to place greater weight on immediate satisfaction,...
Published on September 7, 2025 - Page 23
Nature wastes nothing. Look at a forest floor and you'll see last year's leaves, wood, dead plants and dead animals in some state of decomposition....
Published on September 7, 2025 - Page 23
Look for the Master Gardeners at open-air markets in our area.
We'll be at the Bloomsburg Fair Farmers' Market, Bloomsburg Fairgrounds, near the...
Published on September 7, 2025 - Page 28
NEW YORK (AP) -- A posthumous and "unsparing" memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published...
Published on September 6, 2025 - Page 6
When Claire Pare was a teacher, where every minute, down to the bathroom breaks, was scheduled, she brought granola bars, fruit and protein shakes to...
Published on September 5, 2025 - Page 4
MILAN (AP) -- Giorgio Armani, the iconic Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire,...
Published on September 2, 2025 - Page 4
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- It's a bookworm's idea of heaven: 18 days of non-stop reading.
In a restaurant in Nigeria's Lagos, three men and two women...
Published on September 2, 2025 - Page 7
If you spend time gardening, you probably understand what I mean when I say it feels good -- despite the lifting, sweating and straining. Yes,...
Published on September 2, 2025 - Page 14
Some swear turning off the air conditioning when they're gone for a few hours is the most energy-efficient, cost-saving method. Others say it's...
Published on August 31, 2025 - Page 23
Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people.
Many worry about what...
Published on August 31, 2025 - Page 23
Hundreds of millions of "Buy Now, Pay Later" loans will soon affect credit scores for millions of Americans who use them.
Scoring company FICO said...
Published on August 31, 2025 - Page 23
I wasn't aware of the abundance of autumn olive shrubs along the roadside to my church until one of the members brought it to my attention. After...
Published on August 31, 2025 - Page 23
Look for the Master Gardeners at open-air markets in our area.
We'll be at the Ferry Street Growers' Market, Danville, on Saturday morning, Sept. 6...
Published on August 31, 2025 - Page 28
NEW YORK (AP) -- Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn has a book coming out next year that reveals how she has been shaped by the power of words.
HarperOne, an...
Published on August 30, 2025 - Page 5
and JOSHUA A. BICKEL
Associated Press Writers
PAW PAW, Mich. -- Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their...