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Those who have an in-home clothes washer and dryer often take it for granted. However, even in larger homes, we haven't had the convenience all that long. Indoor plumbing and power made electric washers and tumble dryers possible, and by 1937 they appeared on the market. Most people plopped these appliances in rooms that already [...]
The phone call from her son's school was alarming. The assistant principal told her to come to the school immediately, but when Lisa Manwell arrived at Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth, Mich., her son wasn't sick or injured. He was sitting calmly in the principal's office. John, who has ADHD and finds it soothing to [...]
KIRTLAND, N.M. (AP) — The clamor of second graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work. At Judy Nelson Elementary, 1 in 4 students have left in an [...]
ATLANTA, Ill. — This Thanksgiving, your pumpkin pie might have a lower carbon footprint. On the central Illinois farms that supply most of the world's canned pumpkin, farmers are adopting regenerative techniques designed to reduce emissions, attract natural pollinators such as bees and butterflies and improve the health of the soil. The effort is backed [...]
The value of an internship is unmistakable. It teaches marketable skills, builds professional networks and helps students test-drive careers, but the benefits are not available to all. Close to half of all internships are unpaid, putting them out of reach for students who need wages to keep up with their bills, even if the work [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in American waters dropped dramatically from the 1990s to the 2010 through 2019 decade, according to a new federal report. The amounts spilled and dumped in wastewater from drilling rigs and production platforms rose, but — if the disastrous 2010 Gulf of [...]
Sprawling allegations of abuse against cheerleaders reached Tennessee earlier this week in a case that escalates the accusations facing some of the sport’s top institutions. An adult coach sexually assaulted teenage boys at Premier Athletics, according to allegations in a federal lawsuit filed in Memphis that is similar to a previous complaint against Rockstar Cheer [...]
A decade after Superstorm Sandy pummeled New York and New Jersey in one of the costliest storms in the nation’s history, the federal government is proposing a $52 billion plan to build movable barriers and gates across bays, rivers and other waterways in the two states hardest-hit by the storm. The U.S. Army Corps of [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Some Hyundai and Kia cars and SUVs are missing a “key” anti-theft device and thieves know. An insurance industry group said those cars are stolen at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the auto industry because their keys lack computer chips for theft “immobilizer” systems. The thefts apparently started in [...]
AMALIA, N.M. (AP) — Biologist Bryan Bakevich unscrewed the top of a plastic bucket and removed a Rio Grande cutthroat trout that squirmed from his grasp and plopped onto the grassy bank of Middle Ponil Creek. "He wants to go home," Bakevich said, easing the fish into the chilly, narrow stream — the final stop [...]