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In the South, grief comes with a casserole. Before the obituary hits the paper or the flowers are even ordered, someone’s already brought over deviled eggs. There’s a pound cake on the counter, a baked ham from a neighbor who “just thought y’all might need something,” and if fried ...

Today is a short column, but it’ll lead to something good. It’s not summer yet, but I know there are folks in the Mahoning Valley just waiting for it. Teachers, I’m looking at you. There’s no reason we can’t dream and plan for the coming months, right? But first, I need to take ...

4:15 a.m. Alarm rings, I pack son Benjamin’s lunch. Benjamin had a long weekend. He went up to Cadillac, Michigan, camping with his friend and family Friday morning to Sunday night. They went mushroom hunting but it was too early for the mushrooms in that area yet. We have a meal of ...

In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that an estimated 450,000 Americans suffered from alpha-gal syndrome or AGS. Numbers may be higher since AGS is not a reportable condition, which means health care providers don’t have to notify public health authorities when it’s diagnosed. ...

NEW YORK — The nation’s infant mortality rate dropped last year after two years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau. Some experts think one reason for the drop could be a vaccination campaign against RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, which is a common cause of cold-like symptoms ...