Woman’s personality overshadows friend

DEAR HARRIETTE: I sometimes feel like I’m a background character in my friend’s life. She is outgoing, and I am reserved.

CLINTON’S HISTORY 10, 20, 30 AND 40 YEARS AGO

• Clinton Public Library sponsors Storytime each Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. at the library for 4- and 5-year-old children.

Churches, nonprofits ensnared in push to restrict bail

ATLANTA (AP) — When she was behind bars in Georgia, Nia Thomas would use toothpaste to stick handwritten flyers to the wall and spread the word about community bail funds that could pay inmates' bonds, no strings attached.'I was posting the phone numbers in everybody's rooms, everybody's dorms,...

Most Catholics have stopped worrying about saving souls

As a rule, evangelists from Texas don't go shopping for bourbon before a speech. But that's what Marcel Le-Jeune and some friends did when the Catholic Missionary Disciples leader spoke at a Franciscan University conference last summer in Steubenville, Ohio.

Some heroes don’t wear capes

Capes are not really all that functional when examining the proper hero attire.There’s the possibility of tripping over oneself and it’s bound to get caught in the door of the spiffy “hero-mobile.”Practicality with spandex also has another host of problems that will be bypassed discussing for now...

Antibiotics can help wipe out gut microbiome

ASK THE DOCTORSDear Doctors: I got a tick bite, and because there’s Lyme disease in our area, my doctor put me on antibiotics. It prevented Lyme disease, but I’m worried about what it did to my gut microbiome. How long does it take to recover?

Sister doesn’t happen to like brother’s fiancee

DEAR HARRIETTE: My 32-year-old brother is finally getting married, but I don’t like his bride. I know that his life isn’t mine, so I should mind my business.

Judge Engoron’s retribution for Trump

Donald Trump has just a few weeks to find a way to pay, or guarantee that he will pay, the $355 million fine that a New York judge imposed on him in the lawsuit brought by the state’s Democratic Attorney General Letitia James.

There’s nothing ‘normal’ about 2024

Does anybody really believe the United States is going to have a 'normal' presidential election in 2024, with Joe Biden and Donald Trump as the nominees and a peaceful resolution?

No place for Haley in Trump’s party

Jerry Brown and Gary Hart did it. So did Ted Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Also Henry Jackson and Jesse Jackson. Nelson Rockefeller did it and — going way, way back — so did Oscar Underwood.