Your life
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Looking for a Halloween costume that's cheap and easy? There's no need to shell out big bucks when you can work wonders with a white sheet or some hangers.
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This Halloween will be more competitive than usual for Denny Tribout.
Aided by favorable summer growing conditions, Idaho potato farmers expect to harvest more than 11 billion pounds of spuds by the end of the month, according to Idaho Potato Commission estimates.
An advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound and the doctor describes to her what the fetus looks like.
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The European Union told music lovers Monday to turn down the volume of MP3 players, saying they risk permanent hearing loss from listening too long at maximum levels.
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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will join in the largest study ever conducted in children's health.
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The nation's leading pediatricians group says children from newborns to teens should get double the usually recommended amount of vitamin D because of evidence that it may help prevent serious diseases.
Afraid cash isn't secure even behind the thick walls of banks, more people are turning to something that's protected money since the days of Jesse James and Bonnie and Clyde: safes.
Arkansas plans to reverse course and allow unmarried or same-sex couples to take on foster children on a case-by-case basis, even as voters prepare to decide the issue in November, the state Department of Human Services said Thursday.
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The morsels of food history that come across my desk can be very entertaining and enlightening:
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Q. This summer, I have noticed a number of dead brown areas on the leaves of my Bradford pear trees. I have noticed this on a number of Bradford pears in different neighborhoods as well. What causes this and what can I do about it?
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Q. Some friends are going to give me a baby shower soon and I have a little predicament to resolve. My bridal shower was about five years ago and it was a lovely event -- for me. But some of those who attended made comments later that the shower lasted too, too long because of all the games they had to play.
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No. 1 son called last week in a panic. He was hitting golf balls when he lost his balance and fell -- hard -- right on his knee. Youch!
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Pick a really, really bad year. Immediately, I think of 2001, because of one day, Sept. 11.
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Q. I am looking for information on local funeral homes, especially before 1920. I've done a little research, but I was looking to you for more help for locations and their ultimate fate. -- D.P., of Belleville
