With only six letters, “dilate” really shouldn’t be one of the hard ... word for “moral and principled.” For a real test of your spelling skills, see if you can pass this quiz of 4th ...

More than 170,000 words are currently used in the English language, so it’s almost impossible to know them all. We all like to impress our friends, family and teachers with our knowledge of ...

I wrote a column about Teresa Strasser, whose mother spent a lifetime showing up and loving and healing from the deep, quiet ...

Jessica Ayala doesn’t mince words when sharing her experience as a Murphy Scholar. “Becoming a Murphy Scholar changed my life,” Ayala says. Growing up in Waukegan, she credits her eighth grade teacher ...

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I read the polls (hard as it is to imagine Americans with landlines deciding the election), so you don’t have to, but about ...

As the wife of Kansas City QB Patrick Mahomes, Brittany Mahomes has gained attention for befriending Taylor Swift.

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“But just watching him develop from his eighth-grade and ninth-grade year to what he became the end of his ninth-grade year, we were like, ‘Wow.’ “But he stayed humble, he just worked hard ...

The setback was a torn anterior cruciate ligament in a knee that forced him to miss his entire seventh-grade season. First ...

Salsa — the dance — is known as “the melting pot of cultures” because it combines elements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, African, ...

Gabriel Chavez of Cigarroa follows his brother Arturo's path in cross country, facing unique pressures and challenges.