Sarah Weinman: I've been trying to analyze my reading method to see why I've almost always been able to do this (well, I started reading at the age of 2 1/2; I don't think I was speed-reading back then, but I became aware I could read fast when I ...

9 Jan 2009

MIAMI— Florida is No. 1 in the AP Top 25. Utah is perfect at No. 2, though not perfectly happy. Texas and Southern California also claimed to be the best — but media voters didn’t think so. The Gators received 48 first-place votes and 1,606 ...

9 Jan 2009

"I mainly come to Macy's," said Stumo, of Paynesville. But after decades of buying at what was first Dayton's and then Marshall Fields, she left Macy's today with both bags of clothes, and bad news. "We just heard this morning that the store will be ...

9 Jan 2009

For Joe Casey, February is the month when everything old is new again. While the rest of his compadres in the Man of Action Studio are prepping for the launch of all-new comics series to warm fans’ hearts in the cold winter month, the writer who ...

9 Jan 2009

This is a summary of the transactions the Phillies have made and other things that have happened to the team since their World Series championship-clincher back on October 29th of last year. The team will look mostly the same in 2009, but the ...

9 Jan 2009

A committee tasked with creating a plan to dissolve the Village of Johnson City into the Town of Union is being accused of slanting the plan toward dissolution despite being months away from making a full public report. Mayor Harry Lewis and Trustee ...

5 Jan 2009