When Andrew Knight first purchased the former St. Patrick’s Church and rectory in 2014, he intended it to be just another property in his extensive real estate project portfolio and nothing more. As he pondered its ideal use, however, he became drawn in by the Twin Cities community and people — so much so that […]

Blockage of artery down front of heartkills many people In my years as a prosecutor, I saw plenty of violence, including many deaths. Some were accidental, but some were the work of killers, even serial killers. I have always been fascinated by serial killers. How do they choose their victims? How is it that they can […]

Why do we adore hamsters but abhor rats? Cuddle kittens but curse raccoons? Pay to keep birds inside and bats outside? A big reason, say researchers, has to do with our grandparents, our friends, Hollywood and the Queen of England. In other words, our culture. Hal Herzog, an animal behaviorist who wrote the book “Some […]

WASHINGTON –It’s not free to charge your cellphone at the Pug, a D.C. watering hole. Customers who need a boost when their batteries die must pay a price. The price is their dignity. Tired of the perpetual requests to charge phones – and then track down the owners once the phones are juiced up – […]

When James noticed that his teenage daughter had taken to spending time with a new group of friends and that there was an unsavory odor in her room, he became suspicious. The Kentucky father wondered if his 14-year-old daughter was using drugs, but he didn’t have any hard evidence to support his fears, he told […]

Wayne Slattery, born and raised in West Minot, has owned the store for 37 years now. It sits on the corner where West Minot Road turns into Woodman Hill Road. Wayne’s father, Bill, used to own the store; he and his brother would work in the woods during the day while their wives ran the […]

Fear of public speaking is a common phenomenon. Lots of people suffer from it. It’s just that most of them don’t run for public office where speaking is a must. That’s what Megan Parks did. The new at-large Lewiston School Committee member has been at work since November when she was voted in. She didn’t […]

I was just fine until I saw the numbers. Cable and satellite television was something that I’d been using for so long, I never even thought about it. Not until that moment of clarity when my wife revealed, through complex math and budget sorcery, that in the 12 years we’ve had DirecTV, we’ve paid somewhere […]