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Teaching teenagers is hard enough. But just imagine teaching them blind. That's what Kathy Nimmer — an Indiana English teacher and finalist for 2015 National Teacher of the Year — has been doing for more than two decades. She was in third grade when she was diagnosed with...

WASHINGTON — As Thursday dawns on the nation's capital, marijuana will be a legal intoxicant, though Washington will not be Amsterdam, or even Denver. There will be no pot shops, no open-air smoking, but at least for the moment, the District of Columbia — for once in its decades-long...

Law enforcement is looking for a suspect who fled the scene of a single-vehicle car accident from the weekend. Mike Peterson, a trooper with the South Dakota Highway Patrol, said there were four people involved in the crash. It occurred at approximately 4:30 a.m.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and Shi'ite militiamen sought to seal off Islamic State fighters in Tikrit and nearby towns on Tuesday, the second day of Iraq's biggest offensive yet against a stronghold of the Sunni militants. Iranian military commander Qassem...

When something goes wrong in the garden, it's wise to ask why. When something goes unexpectedly right, the same question is in order. Take bulb fennel, also called Florence fennel. One is told that bulb fennel is a cool-weather plant best grown as a fall crop, because warm weather...

Grass-fed beef is the meat of the moment. The image of cattle dotting green hillsides is an appealing counterpoint to the thought of herds corralled...