As it marched from East to West this year, the coronavirus pandemic sank economies and transformed social interactions. It shut schools and bu…
MINNEAPOLIS — Along with bread baking, bike riding and playing board games, add this to the list of things that have become more popular durin…
Americans may not know if trick or treating will happen this year because of the pandemic, but they’re buying a lot of Halloween candy while t…
PHILADELPHIA — For Joanne Edelstein of Philadelphia, no destination was too far or too complicated to consider, nothing out of reach to plan a…
Flu season is approaching, but some medical experts say it's possible this year's may shape up to be milder than initially feared. The unlikel…
Restaurants in cities and towns across the nation are reopening their dining rooms, and many people are venturing back in.
Ford was one of the automakers who rose to the task when the U.S. needed to boost ventilator production in the midst of the coronavirus pandem…
DETROIT — Richard Beckerson will never know whether it was convalescent plasma that made the lifesaving difference — or whether it was the ant…
ATLANTA — Gwinnett County Transit driver Mikesha Walker talked to co-workers recently about whether they would participate in a COVID-19 vacci…
The much-publicized rationale behind wearing a face mask is to protect others from your sprayed droplets.
PHILADELPHIA — Once Alexandria Maurizzio and her fiance got engaged last November, they wanted to be married within a year. Even if a pandemic…
MARSHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — It’s the time of year when gardeners are turning their ripe tomatoes into sauces and salsas and cucumbers into pickles.…
CHICAGO — Aubree Schmitt, 23, has seen a surge in youth suicides in her rural residential area. A native of Rock Falls, Illinois, the second-y…
Controlling a room of 7- and 8-year-olds is hard enough in person. Over Zoom? Fuhgeddaboudit.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Like many parents in Connecticut, Amy Provost is facing a dual dilemma as school reopens: needing someone to watch her kids …
PITTSBURGH — Home sewing got kicked to the curb sometime in the 1980s or '90s.
PHILADELPHIA — Once an hour, sometimes more, employees at Weavers Way Co-op grocery stores diligently wipe disinfectant on all "high-touch" su…
With “Strong from the Heart” (Forge), the 11th book in the Caitlin Strong Texas Ranger series, author Jon Land offers readers a satisfying ble…
Recently a large, uncut slab of beautifully marbled ribeye priced to sell caught my eye. I fired up the grill and made some porter beer steak …