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Mud pits, electric wires, climbing walls and a long-distance run — for most participants, outdoor obstacle races offer a chance to overcome physical challenges and bond with friends, often in a rowdy atmosphere. But even as these adrenaline-fueled...

24/7 SOBRIETY PROGRAM AG releases results of sobriety program PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Approximately 120 people have taken nearly 125,000 sobriety tests using an ignition interlock device as part of South Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Program. Attorney...

Finally. After many contentious years, the American Psychiatric Assn. has unleashed DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If you know one thing about the DSM, it’s probably that this book is...

Retired World Bank administrator Anne B. Thomas will be the guest speaker at the League of Women Voters annual meeting Tuesday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at Otterbein United Methodist Church on the corner of East Franklin and Locust streets in Hagerstown. The...

Newborns arrive in this world somewhat half-baked or, in the more measured words of evolutionary anthropologist Wanda Trevathan of the University of New Mexico, "a little unfinished, if you will." Parents declare them beautiful, these wailing bundles of...

UCLA basketball Coach Steve Alford is still trying to disentangle himself from the University of New Mexico. New Mexico says Alford owes the university $1 million, which was the buyout amount in a contract extension that was to take effect April 1, two...

The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra's Sunday Series will present a chamber music concert titled "Chestnuts, Old and New" at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Petoskey. Admission is free.  Orchestra members Julie Schleif, horn, and...

University of New Mexico basketball coach and Hoosier legend Steve Alford was busy on the phone a few weeks ago when a woman started tapping on the outside window of his campus office. Yikes! While he wondered if he should call security, Alford...

 American Indians have different thoughts about Native American Day, but on one point they agree — they are glad it is not Columbus Day.  "To me, I am really excited Gov. (George) Mickelson made the effort to change the holiday," said Dani...

When Shepherd University dean Virginia Hicks saw Jennifer Penland’s application for a teaching post, she knew a common bond connected them — a passion for studying indigenous peoples. Deeper even was the passion the experienced educators...

As part of a federal project aimed at better treating pain, the University of Maryland, Baltimore will begin revamping the way it teaches future doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists. Pain affects approximately 100 million Americans and their...

Digby Wolfe, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who helped producer George Schlatter develop "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," a landmark TV series that became an overnight sensation in the late 1960s, has died. He was 82. Wolfe, who later became a professor...