Phil Lucas, of the Lakelands Marines Detachment 1112 and coordinator of Monday’s Memorial Day ceremony in Uptown Greenwood, called Memorial Day the most solemn of all holidays ...

With the long Memorial Day weekend behind us, and our summer in front, a poem by Louis Jenkins sticks in my mind. It's just seven sentences with the title, "The State of the ...

"That Whitsun, I was late getting away..." So begins one of the most celebrated poems of the last century, written in October 1958 at 32 Pearson Park, Hull, by a librarian at the ...

Since the TV show ended, fickle viewers have transferred to Desperate Housewives and Entourage, and Sarah Jessica Parker has had to endure being named in a magazine poll of the ...

Alex Wilson has a passion for military history, and at age 16 is already a published author, writing for the online version of Armchair General. His specialty is World War II, but ...

LOS ANGELES -- Some people (especially those of us who've been around longer than we'd like to admit) continually lament what we perceive to be the decline in American poetry. We ...

* City Council work session, 5:30 p.m. today, Rouss City Hall. * Planning and Development Committee, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Rouss City Hall. * School Board Building and Grounds ...

On this, and every memorial day, I can't help but remember the wonderful poem Mr. Cardinal, Jack Buck wrote in remembrance of this day. Jack was certainly a very talented poet. I ...

The bass of a neighbor's stereo thumped against the thin walls of Lila McCurtain's apartment. Deep voices shouted profanities outside her window. A car alarm went off. CHERYL DIAZ ...

I have been asking myself lately if it's possible that I have a problem – an inability to resist free books. For me, there's almost something magical about them. Three recent ...