CONCORD - The police cruiser lurches to a stop. An officer leaps out, rushing inside for an armed robbery in progress at a convenience store. Within minutes, it’s over, and five people have been shot — three bad guys, a store clerk and a customer. It’s a high-tech simulation, but the emotions and the stress it engenders are very real.
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As winters warm, white-tailed deer push ever northward in North America. A recent study in Global Change Biology suggests that climate change is driving these habitat shifts - changes that may further threaten woodland caribou in northern Canada.
The Age of Magical Overthinking Notes on Modern Irrationality By Amanda Montell Atria/One Signal. 272 pp. $28.
WHEN OUR KIDS were young, I briefly considered home schooling. Then I was teaching our son to play piano, found myself with the John Thompson Book for Beginners rolled up in my hand, ready to swat him on the arm, and realized I was not home-school material.
On April 22 in London, some of the top players in travel collaborated to publish a joint report on how to help combat and reverse biodiversity loss.
The Demon of Unrest By Erik Larson. Publisher: Crown, 499 pages, $35.
DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend, “Will,” and I have been together for seven years. We get along great. I love his close-knit family and adore his parents. He’s the youngest of five brothers, most of whom I get along with great. The only brother I don’t know is the oldest. “Rick” has been incarcerate…
Q. I have an all-in-one stereo that includes a CD player and a cassette player. It has finally died and I’m wondering if the TEAC AD-850-SE might be a good replacement to play my cassettes and CDs. Could you perhaps say a few words about reasonably priced integrated amplifiers and bookshelf …
FIRST RUN in 1875, just 10 years after the end of the Civil War, the Kentucky Derby is America’s oldest continuously held major sporting event and it is still known as “the most exciting two minutes in sports”. As the Derby celebrates its 150th anniversary on Saturday with a $5 million purse…
The University of North Alabama Friday announced its mascot lion, Leo III, died Thursday after a brief illness.
New Hampshire National Guard Lt. Ryan Camp looked through the border fence separating Texas and Mexico and made a mental note of the pickup truck crawling back and forth along the bank of the Rio Grande. He logged the man fishing and the person he could hear but not see walking through the b…
A POPULAR tourist destination in Lincoln now has a new identity after more than three decades.
THERE ARE drive-thrus for banks, doughnut shops and burger joints. We can’t forget chicken places and tacos, either.
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