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Credit: Geología Valdivia New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas ...

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Roughly 80 years ago, Christian novelist Jan Karon, creator of the beloved 15-volume Mitford Years series, stood in front of ...

Craig Shaeffer, a local English teacher, has doubled as an author for two decades. Now, he's approaching the inner circle of ...

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Although she didn't say much, my 99-year-old grandma taught me some great life lessons. I've learned the power of silently appreciating others and enjoying their company. She showed me it's never too ...

A missing persons case in North Carolina was solved in stunning fashion on Thursday when police announced that the woman, who had been missing for 24 years, was alive and well and living a secret life ...

A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...

A North Carolina mother of three who vanished over two decades ago was found alive and living a new life — leaving her family reeling with questions over her whereabouts, according to authorities and ...