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Can teens prevent friends from texting and driving?

May 13, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.

Driving with a car full of friends has long been considered a dangerous distraction, but a new survey from Consumer Reports suggests the presence of peers could at least encourage...

"Find something that you love to do and it won't feel like you work a day in your life," says defense attorney Jennifer Vaughn, shown at her LA Boxing gym in Chicago.

Remarkable Woman: Jennifer Vaughn

June 17, 2018 at 5:51 p.m.

Jennifer Vaughn hustled into the boxing gym wearing a pant suit and droplet earrings, apologizing for being late. An assistant public defender assigned to the Cook County juvenile division, Vaughn,...

Remarkable Woman: Jennifer Vaughn

May 13, 2019 at 6:09 p.m.

Jennifer Vaughn hustled into the boxing gym wearing a pant suit and droplet earrings, apologizing for being late. An assistant public defender assigned to the Cook County juvenile division, Vaughn,...

Whether hanging horizontally or vertically, the union should be uppermost and to the observer's left (in a window, the observer is the person in the street).

Displaying the American flag

May 30, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

If you plan to let your patriotic colors fly this Memorial Day, do right by Old Glory and display it with dignity — which is to say, not on your...

Displaying the American flag

May 13, 2019 at 6:06 p.m.

If you plan to let your patriotic colors fly this Memorial Day, do right by Old Glory and display it with dignity — which is to say, not on your...

App helps romantically indecisive chart their course

May 13, 2019 at 6:06 p.m.

Relationships have their ups and downs, but at what point do the downs make the relationship more trouble than it's worth? For Sarah Gray, the answer lay in a graph....

Mom’s ‘God boxes’ celebrate the gift of letting go

May 13, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

The day after her mother died, with the house surreally silent, Mary Lou Quinlan reached to the highest shelf of her mom's Fort Myers, Fla., bedroom closet and discovered the...

Gifts from the heart

December 24, 2018 at 2:26 a.m.

Somewhere along the way, honoring mom came to mean a fancy brunch or extravagant flower bouquet, an oddly transactional approach that manages to be both generic and pricey at a...

Gifts from the heart

May 13, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

Somewhere along the way, honoring mom came to mean a fancy brunch or extravagant flower bouquet, an oddly transactional approach that manages to be both generic and pricey at a...

Vampire literature

June 18, 2018 at 10:15 a.m.

Sink your teeth into this lit Vampire folklore dates back 3,000 years, with the oldest myths coming out of Mesopotamia, though cultures from ancient Egypt to China had stories of...

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