Reader's travel: Museum display that gets to the bottom of it all
By VIVIENNE MACKIE/For The News-GazetteThis is not about a crypt, an archaeological site or catacombs under a city. No, this is about underwear. Corset. Chemise. Drawers. Petticoat. Crinoline. Girdle....
View ArticlePlaces to visit that are just, well, superior
By DEBRA KARPLUSWhether you are in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Michigan, traveling along the coast of Lake Superior, you will be enamored at the spectacular scenery in some of the most unexplored but...
View ArticleExhibit on George Washington on display at Missouri History Museum
ST. LOUIS — Who can forget George Washington, the boy who could not tell a lie, the man who could toss a dollar coin across a wide river, the president who wore wooden teeth?Well, none of those stories...
View ArticleUrbana police sergeant links man to string of bank holdups
URBANA — A police sergeant patroling in Urbana is believed to have given authorities in four states the break they needed to solve more than a dozen bank robberies allegedly committed by an Urbana...
View ArticleIndiana trucker injured in I-74 crash
CHAMPAIGN — An Indiana man remained hospitalized Wednesday afternoon with injuries he received when his semitrailer truck rolled on its side in the morning.A release from Illinois State Police at...
View ArticleBillboards are still signs of our times
Like a lot of other people, we took a road trip — and dealt with lots of snow — over spring break.It wasn’t a long vacation, just an extended weekend in Kansas City to take in some NCAA tournament...
View ArticleGibson City man dies in Indiana accident
FOWLER, Ind. — A Gibson City man was killed in a two-vehicle accident Saturday on an Indiana highway.The Benton County (Ind.) sheriff’s office said the accident occurred at 11:05 a.m. west of Fowler,...
View ArticleFamily road trips - memories for a lifetime
This column ran in the June 5 News-Gazette "Family" section. We've added a few more suggestions at the bottom from friends and readers - feel free to add to the list! Tick-tick-tick-tick.That’s the...
View ArticleA connection to Grandpa
My kids are growing up without their grandfathers.My dad and my husband’s father both died before our children were born, and I’ve thought many times about what a loss that is.read more
View ArticleJeff Nichols & Michael Shannon funnier in person than in "Take Shelter"
The first movie to sell out in the 14th annual Ebertfest, which ended today, was writer-director Jeff Nichols’s "Take Shelter," a Hitchcock-style psychological family drama starring Michael Shannon and...
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