4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (346+ words) Today is Thursday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2025. There are 112 days left in the year. On Sept. 10, 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proceedings would become a watershed moment in…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (431+ words) Leaders of the Southeastern Conference will meet today to discuss whether to take the extraordinary step of kicking LSU out of the league in the wake of an ugly feud over first-year coach Lane Kiffin’s now-abandoned effort to field players…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (300+ words) Today is Wednesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2026. There are 113 days left in the year. On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, taking 42 staff members hostage and demanding improvements to inmate treatment and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (210+ words) The Mining Journal ‘American Pickers’ to film in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan in October The crew from "American Pickers," a documentary series on The History Channel that dives into the world of antique "picking," is headed to Indiana, Ohio and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1756+ words) When Simon’s wife of 43 years passed away, it felt a bit like he’d died too. In his overwhelming grief, Simon sought companionship online, like so many other lonely widows and widowers. Almost immediately he met Emily. But over the next…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1091+ words) The U.S. Postal Service is poised to launch a hastily built, error-riddled computer system that could jeopardize the process of mail voting relied upon by one-third of all voters, according to a whistleblower statement released Tuesday by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (368+ words) Today is Wednesday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2026. There are 120 days left in the year. On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II. In 1666, the Great Fire of London began, which would…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1579+ words) CORUNNA -- Three Michigan school districts are betting that a specialized clinic may be the antidote to surging health care costs. The medical care here at the Corunna Plum Health clinic -- inside a collection of converted high school classrooms on the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (595+ words) Don’t look now, but we seem to have a moral panic on our hands. The term moral panic, at least as a social science concept, is relatively modern. It was coined by Stanley Cohen in the 1972 book “Folk Devils and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (58+ words) The Mining Journal Lunar eclipse lights up skies across the Americas and Europe Victim of assault near Warming Center was center guest State OKs $50 million grant for Copperwood Mine Starting over — but with experience: Modeltowners return to varsity status with…...