When Bill Elliott had a heart attack in 2019, it took his neighbor 45 minutes to drive him to an emergency room. He lived in Trinity, a small town in East ...

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In March of 2025, at the annual Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, I was one of hundreds of festival-goers ...

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Titus Tomlinson can’t travel through rural Oregon without someone recognizing him. “You’re that RARE guy!” people say, ...

The latest 'Superman' blockbuster sets the superhero's sincere, idealized roots against a host of contemporary challenges.

At the turn of the 20th century, nine railroad lines intersected at a junction in Aberdeen, South Dakota. It was a spectacle.

News outlets from around the world have visited the Saguache Crescent to pay tribute to its centry-old linotype machine.

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How Oregon Tech is using personal coaches to help students navigate everything from disabilities to life transitions.

The idea of a food desert would have seemed impossible to us, growing up so close to all the earth can provide. As kids, we’d walk with our dad to bring ...

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