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A homicide investigation is underway after a 14-year-old boy was shot to death near a Dallas park.

Starting Jan. 29, the News-Messenger in Fremont is refreshing the list of comic strips we offer.

Starting Jan. 29, the News Journal is refreshing the list of comic strips we offer, holding on to some longtime favorites while adding new titles.

Back in "the good old days" of the adventurous decade daily comic strips ran, more than less, four panels wide. World War Two with its material reductions basically ended that and by the 1950s three panels became the norm. These days two panels seem more common than three for adventure and other continuity strips. And

Find answers to the latest online sudoku and crossword puzzles that were published in USA TODAY Network's local newspapers.

SPRINGFIELD A total of $2,161,000 in grants to help communities develop and improve 13 local bike path projects throughout Illinois was announced today

"Every time you step, you pick up more mud, and it's just really hard to move. There is absolutely no way you could move a vehicle through this right now."

In the new suburbia our botched civilization lives out its sunny downhill days amid all the twisted trappings of Anglo-American culture.

If you want to understand how markets, and creative destruction, work, just turn to the comics page in your local newspaper. If you can find a copy. Newspaper circulation is tumbling. Yet comics, and the newspapers they appear in, exist in the free market. As newspapers fade, people will be forced to find other ways to follow their beloved strips. Artists will adapt. Some will go out of business. Others will thrive, perhaps by moving to Web-only strips supported by advertising. Government, on th...

Rosemary Wood Dodd will be remembered as a bright and colorful figure in Gainesville and a leader in the arts community.