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Members of a committee in Platteville are considering whether several books should be removed from shelves at the Platteville Middle School library.

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By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...

The Alabama Crimson Tide play at a blazing-fast pace (second in possession length) and don't give a damn about playing ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Turn of the century Chicago saloon owner Patrick H. Grimes was reportedly a notorious figure in the city's gambling scene, ...

The No. 8 Florida Gators may have just accomplished their biggest win of the 2024-2025 season earlier on Tuesday. Not only did they defeat the No.