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She loved everyone she encountered and would do just about anything to make sure they knew it,” her obituary said.

Kyndall Torres had 11 points, Erinn Mayberry scored 10 and Jaelyn Norman provided nine in Legacy's 45-34 win over Odessa ...

While University boys and Parkersburg South girls captured the team championships Saturday at the OVAC Class 4A/5A Bowling ...

Payton Love rolled games of 247 and 216 at Park Lanes on Wednesday as the Heath boys bowling team finished off an unbeaten ...

The Mahpíya Lúta girls basketball team has risen up to No. 2 in Class A in the South Dakota Preps Media Poll. The Crusaders ...

“Nickel Boys” — first a novel by Colson Whitehead, now the feature narrative debut of filmmaker RaMell Ross — tackles a lot ...

In Tahlequah, a living legend works with fabrics as her canvas to tell the story of the Cherokee Nation. Meet the woman who ...

Crows rustle in Dylan Southern’s fiction feature debut, the haunting story of a middle-aged man coming to terms with the ...

A Minnesota music festival has announced its 2025 lineup for this summer. The Minnesota Yacht Club Festival takes place from ...

Crucial matchups were had, with an upset and a perfect record kept unblemished. There were also teams who now possess ...