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The Peter White Public Library stands as one of the finest small-city libraries in the Midwest, with not only an extensive collection but also community programming, meeting spaces, and a welcoming ...

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When Democratic lawmakers fled Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s ...

Seven Tubs is Pennsylvania’s undercover superstar, quietly showing off 12,000 years of nature’s handiwork while the rest of us were busy with our daily lives. The name itself is delightfully literal – ...

Alabama Flood Hero A 22-year-old man died saving his childhood friend during flash flooding in east Alabama. Cohen Sinclair Turner helped push his friend to safety in a tree after their SUV was swept ...

When Democratic lawmakers left Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol ...