In last year’s roundup of the 10 best movies of the year, I found myself asking the question “Am I broken?” I inquired at the time because, that year, I had nine 4-star reviews, more than I’d ever had ...

It is that time of year again. Over 500 proposed bills have been pre-filed since Dec. 1 for the 2026 legislative session starting on Jan. 7. According to KMOV St. Louis, this may be a new record. As ...

Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what ...

The end of the year is nigh, so it’s time for the usual film critic hijinks that arrive every December. While you await my upcoming 10 best and worst list, I’ll start with my annual list of 10 great ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

Led by coach Curt Cignetti, the Indiana Hoosiers knocked off Ohio State to win their first Big Ten title since 1967. Michael Reaves / Getty Images A showdown of the nation’s top-rated teams in the Big ...

McDowell County leaders are considering placing displays of the Ten Commandments on the courthouse lawn and at other county-owned buildings.

The 2025 college football regular season has come to a close, and with the semester winding down, it's the perfect time to hand out early final grades. The Big Ten had an overall strong showing with ...

I’m not going to lie: 2025 was not a year that’s easy to put a rosy spin on, even in the introductory blurb to a list of the year’s best movies. This has been a 12-month period of daily pummeling by ...

On Dec. 6, Indiana defeated Ohio State to win its first Big Ten championship in 58 years in an epic contest that, based on the numbers, captivated way more than just Hoosiers and Buckeyes' fans. FOX ...

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A half-kudos to Gov. Mike Kehoe. He has landed on the right side (if for the wrong reason) of the debate over whether Missouri should require the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school ...