As a week filled with uncertainty looks to be coming to a close when it comes to trade talks and the Phoenix Suns, Devin ...

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The Ramona Community Library will be closed for several weeks after water damage required roof repairs, officials said.

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The first in a planned trilogy of books about his life, Source Code covers Gates' remarkable childhood in Seattle, his brief ...

A churro shop in Pilsen closed its doors yesterday. So did a Mexican grocer in Chicago Heights. The owner of several Mexican restaurants in Elgin, himself the son of immigrants, shut his business for ...

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Junie' by Erin Crosby Eckstine is our 'GMA' Book Club pick for February. The book follows a girl who awakens her sister's ...

Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her new book about the transgender experience, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner and her own trans daughter.

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath. John Self is a book ...

The federal jury seated last week reached a verdict Monday in the criminal trial of a man who's charged with conspiracy to ...