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In college softball's biggest year, Ferndale's Hailey Dolcini grabs her dream

I love a good fitness podcast, especially when I’m double-dipping by learning about fitness while I’m doing fitness — learning about strength

Three adults and eight children were displaced after a fire at a three-unit apartment building in the 400 block of South Glenwood Avenue Wednesday.

A massive fire in Bradfordton shut down a portion of Illinois 97 late Friday afternoon.  Just before 3:30 p.m. Friday, the Springfield Fire Department responded to a general alarm for reported flames coming from a grain elevator building in the 4400 block of West Jefferson Street. While en route, 911 informed firefighters that it received multiple calls about the fire.  Local firefighters reported heavy smoke visible in the sky from several miles away. Arriving at the scene, they found a 100...

Mens Health THE CURRENT DEFINITIONS for the term plant-based are hazy. So food-manufacturing companies can slap a “plant-based” label on anything and collect a health halo. That’s why in creating our new book, “A plant-based diet should be an inclusionary diet of plants rather than an exclusionary diet of animal products,” says Eric Helms, Ph.D., C.S.C.S., a steroid-free bodybuilder and a nutrition and exercise researcher who has been eating a high-protein plant-based diet for almos...