Headlines on 2019-01-31

If you have found yourself down on heuchera or coral bells then I would like to urge you to give them a new cool season shot. All heuchera species are native to the United States but many of us judge the plant's performance in July's hot, summer sun, which is definitely not their friend; they are really more acclimated to a shady or filtered light.

Early in the biggest week of the biggest game of their lives, the unsettling notion became humanly clear. The Rams' biggest obstacle to winning Super Bowl LIII could be the Super Bowl itself.

Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, who is on the panel negotiating a border security deal the president will support. NPR's Domenico Montanaro weighs in on the issue.

Dawn Richard gained fame as a member of R&B group Danity Kane just as her hometown was recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Now a solo artist, she explores her New Orleans roots on a new album.

If there’s anything that you might already know about the new Matthew McConaughey movie Serenity, it’s that it contains a big twist. And if there’s anything you know about the big critics’ reviews, it’s that they are negative and full of spoilers. The New Yorker’s Richard Brody wrote in his pan that “[t]here’s almost nothing of consequence to discuss in Serenity that isn’t a spoiler, but there’s almost nothing in it that’s not spoiled in advance.” But if you like seeing authentically unusual...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday appointed new heads for two state agencies that came under scrutiny during the previous administration for their handling of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease at a veterans home in downstate Quincy. Pritzker appointed the medical director of the Cook County

A man is dead and six others are injured after firefighters fought to rescue several people from a fire at a Glen Burnie home Wednesday night. The Anne Arundel County Fire Department wrote in a release that firefighters were called to the scene of a fire at a home at 415 Wellham Avenue at 11:46

Over the years, I've driven every car Tesla has ever produced. They've all been good, but features of individual models have stood out. Here's a rundown of what I love about the Tesla original Roadster, the Model S and the Model X, and the Model 3. Plus a little something extra

The rangy and enigmatic singer-songwriter is fully indifferent to fitting anywhere specific on the canvas of American folk — or, really, anywhere.

The Hüsker Dü legend returns with a new album, a new video, a new single and a new, sunnier outlook that's not dimmed by his obsession with the surveillance state.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar's early focus in Congress this year is on the kind of popular, consumer-oriented measures that have been a foundation of her Senate career. At the start of

When Pigtown resident McKenzie Allen lived in Philadelphia, she likened her rented apartments to a comedy of errors. The water heater broke. A leak filled the ceiling with water until it cracked, bursting into the room below. “Not that I’m a control freak, but I hate that you don’t have the control