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Dig uncovers how Shakers lived

Equality of sexes, pacificism, celibacy guided their lives

Religion Briefs

St. Kateri Tekakawitha to be celebrated St. Ignatius Church in Ignacio will celebrate the feast of St. Kateri Tekakawitha at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at 15449 Colorado Highway 172. ...

This Harvard grad offered $10,000 to find him a girlfriend – will he find love?

A lovelorn 29-year-old in Birmingham, Alabama, is crowdsourcing his soulmate search, and there are some things he wants you to know: He works 12 hours a day. He plays cornhole shirtless. He ...

New book offers lessons for parents from entrepreneurs

NEW YORK – Hard work, persistence, initiative. Can the skills found among entrepreneurs help today’s young people navigate their way to success? Absolutely, say a developmental psychologist ...

To bring out this little one's sisterly love, we'll need pest control

Q: I am an only child, so I do not understand this sibling thing. My two kids (a boy, 7, and a girl, 5) are friends, but they argue and pester each other. Mostly, in my opinion, Little Siste...

Parenting and hypocrisy: From Free Range kid to Helicopter Mom?

Hey Ann. Madrigal Singers was rad. Don’t party too hard this summer. Ha ha just kidding. I need to burn all my yearbooks. Parents know that when they bring a baby into...

Swiss pay out $4.9M to people taken from parents as children

BERLIN – Swiss authorities say they have paid out 4.6 million francs ($4.9 million) so far to hundreds of people who as children were taken from their parents and sent to work on Swiss farms...

Baggage Check: Advice for a parent of a college-detouring daughter and a reader tired of hearing 'it's over'

Q: Our daughter, a middling-to-good student, is pushing to take a year off from school and not go directly to college but has no plans of what she’d do during that time. My husband and I tel...

Helicopter parents and their fragile kids

Sometimes I despair for the children these days, I really do. I didn’t expect to feel this way at the tender age of 42. I was supposed to find them puzzling, with their Snapchatti...

The economics of having your baby at home

Over the past decade, the rate of U.S. births happening outside hospitals has been steadily on the rise, as more expectant mothers seek out a relaxed, private space to bring their children i...

Mom sues Ohio YMCA, says it excluded boy with Down syndrome

CINCINNATI – A YMCA in Ohio excluded a 6-year-old boy from a summer camp and some other programs because he has Down syndrome and treated him hypocritically after using his photos in its pro...

Are new Oreos more ‘sophisticated’?

NEW YORK – Oreos are getting a skinny new look, and its maker says the new cookie is a “sophisticated” snack for grown-ups that isn’t meant to be twisted or dunked. Mondelez Inter...