A man was injured Tuesday afternoon in a shooting at an apartment building on State Street, police said. Officers were ...
Brian McKay is on trial for the murder of his estranged wife, Monica McKay, facing charges including murder, stalking, and violating a protective order. The defense argues Brian McKay did not have ...
The police in Alice Springs fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse an angry crowd demanding justice. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia Violence erupted across a rural town in ...
A Writer’s Ode to the Small-Town Girls Who Left, and Those Who Stayed A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph. Jayne Anne ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
We’re proud to celebrate Lauryn Borzilleri, who has been named a recipient of the 2026 NCAA Jim McKay Graduate Scholarship. Lauryn is a member of the University of Kentucky softball team, a UK ...
This week, two books seem to walk in and immediately start arguing about how to tell a life story. Jayne Ann Phillips, in "Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir," takes her time, sifting through decades ...
Every year in May, the small Appalachian town of Buckhannon, W.Va., hosts a weeklong Strawberry Festival. It began in the 1930s as a booster for the local farms that were once a mainstay of the area ...
The essays in “Small Town Girls” (Knopf) were written over many years, says author Jayne Anne Phillips, but they go together to make up a memoir that moves from Phillips’s childhood in Buckhannon, ...
Jayne Anne Phillips writes like a jeweler, setting each word like a gemstone. Phillips won the Pulitzer Prize in 2024 for the novel “Nightwatch,” set in a post-Civil War so nightmarish that a mother ...
Youth worker Kate Champneys has helped teenage girls flee County Lines gangs A youth worker has warned girls in a market town are being lured into drug-running by gangs operating across county lines.
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