Full-time RV-ing remains a popular option for retirees who not only want to see the world, but want to take the slow road getting there. According to the RV Industry Association, as many as a million U.S. retirees are living full time on the road. And why wouldn’t they? Whether buying or renting for the [...]
CHICAGO — The work of famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was recognized this week as eight of his buildings, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Los Angeles’ Hollyhock House and the Unity Temple in suburban Chicago, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. “Each of these buildings offers innovative [...]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A Brazilian-owned meat processing company undercut its competition by more than $1 per pound to win nearly $78 million in pork contracts through a federal program launched to help American farmers offset the impact from an ongoing trade war. As a result, JBS USA has won more than 26 percent of [...]
WALKILL, N.Y. (AP) — Eat locally. Shop locally. Generate locally? Some electricity customers in New York’s Hudson Valley support hydropower harnessed from running water close to home. The idea is similar to farm-to-table, except for electricity instead of food.: green-minded customers supporting an area renewable resource. And smaller hydro plants like those run by Harry [...]
With a desire to lose weight, Aaron and Mollie Peless tried a few diets to no avail. They even tried the ice cream diet “and that went really horrible,” Aaron said. They then started the keto diet, limiting their carb count to 20 grams each per day, a year ago and have lost nearly 100 [...]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the moon, they took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and a nearby impact crater that is the most well-preserved on Earth. Northern Arizona has had deep ties to the Apollo missions: Every moon-walking [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a cabinet inside a modest laboratory in downtown Washington are rows and rows of ink samples in plastic squeeze bottles and small glass jars. To the untrained eye, it’s just a bunch of blackish liquid with strange names like “moldy sponge” or “green grass.” But to the U.S. Secret Service agents [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fed up with the high taxes and regulation back home in New York, retired officer Thomas Maloney and his wife, real estate agent Theresa Hart, are looking to offload a home in Long Island — quickly. “It’s been a thorn in my side for the past seven years,” Maloney said. Between [...]
For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops in the country, business is booming as a younger generation discovers the joy of the feel and [...]