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2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Get to know the favorites and what to watch for

The NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs are not far away, with the first series set to begin on Saturday, April 18. The league is on track for the biggest postseason turnover in history, with the potential for half the field — eight of the 16 spots — to be teams that did not qualify a year ago. ...

Should America have a red line?

President Trump has acted as no other president has by unleashing a war on Iran whose objective is not only preventing the ayatollahs from ever building a nuclear weapon but ideally (though unmentioned) replacing the fanatics with leaders more friendly to Israel and the West and delivering ...

An Evening of Pre-War Blues at the Alpena County Library

The Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library will host An Evening of Pre-War Blues Music event on March 19 at 5:30 p.m. This event is a musical and historical survey of the blues from the turn of the 20th century until World War II. This event covers acoustic blues music from Blind ...

Iranian state media say country’s supreme leader is dead

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, Iranian state media reported early Sunday. Iranian state television and the state-run IRNA news agency reported the 86-year-old's death, without elaborating on a cause. U.S. President Donald Trump ...

I’ve got addiction down to a tea

The advice to "Write drunk, edit sober" is often attributed (probably incorrectly) to the hard-drinking Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist. Here's my own riff on that advice. I could not have written five novels or 150 columns without swilling my beverage of choice between ...