Crash closes Highway 1
Castle Fun Park reopens
Shooting suspects identified
Teen found, man arrested
Taliban law may be tweaked
Trudeau bid to reclaim flag 
Pistorius seeks parole 
US to make climate goals
NY overhauls handgun rules 
Markets wrap brutal quarter
Call for flight compensation
OPEC boost unlikely to help
Undermanned Seattle Sounders take advantage of slack defending to blank Toronto FC
Arenado, Cards hit 4 straight HRs in 1st; late HR tops Phils
Cubs pitcher Alec Mills exits with back injury vs. Red Sox
Lindsay Lohan marries
Adele on verge of tears
R Kelly’s ‘gulag’ jail
In A Pickle
Chicken terrifies toddler
Dad swung the axe and lopped off the chicken’s head, which rolled into the tall grass. Death was quick and virtually painless. As a youngster, I wondered...
Sleep clinic mania
Florencestein, my alter ego, materialized after the technician attached the last wire to my scalp. Soon it would be lights out at the sleep clinic and...
Backwoods mania
There was no time to react as the tree snapped, crackled and popped in half before clobbering me on my head. I was walking Gypsy though a burned-out forest...
An Italian COVID adventure
Sonia Maglio Gudwer adjusted her mask and scarf, took a deep breath and stepped into the throng flowing through the streets of Rome. She was on a mission, a...
Meeting mama moose
The cow moose raced across the open meadow toward us. Her hackles were raised and her ears flat as she trumpeted and roared, the primal bellow echoing across...
Backyard battles
Lily, the wasp, pounced on the caterpillar, grabbed with her jaws and bit into its spongy skull. Venom coursed through his body, but Conrad, the caterpillar...
Little girl's swampy paradise
With bullet speed, the junior Western Painted turtle back flipped to safety. Len and I were awestruck by the shelled wonder’s agility. It catapulted off...
The places in between
The antelope bounded across the open field and loped toward our vehicle, which was stopped beside the highway, near Moose Jaw. The impala ran back and forth,...
Coyote encounters
My blood ran cold when Tig’ger disappeared from the front yard. Perhaps she caught the scent of a deer, or was lured by a coyote or dognapper. Three...
Advice for a new pandemic from an old plague
It has been said that there are no atheists in a fox hole, and I can’t help but wonder if we on planet Earth aren’t in a fox hole now. Here we are...
Family escapes to Canada
By Doreen Zyderveld-Hagel A threatening letter anonymously sent warned the Gonzalez family that they were targeted for kidnapping. It was the last straw, and so...
The dog and the robo-vac
By Doreen Zyderveld-Hagel The robot vacuum whirled to face us, and then circled menacingly, or at least the dog thought so. Whenever the machine would roll...
Back in the saddle
By Doreen Zyderveld-Hagel It was like getting back in the saddle again, but safer where from I sat, in a sleigh directly behind three draft horses. They pulled...
Demon-looking sock angel
A Crazy, Winged, Ding-Batty Thing’s Christmas By Doreen Zyderveld-Hagel I didn’t start out trying to make another bizarre looking sock puppet,...
Shopping cart mayhem
By Doreen Zyderveld-Hagel "Get out of the way before I hit you,” bellowed the woman in front of me. I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye, but...
Memories that bite
By Doreen Zyderveld-Hagel Something was lurking in the bushes during our daughter’s wedding and turns out that something was a hornet’s nest the...
Vancouver Island adventure
By Doreen Zyderveld-Hagel On the first day of holidays, my true love sank in quick sand, and our dog got zapped at the Air B&B's dew-covered land. On...
Don't sleep with your horse
By Wild Bill Martin-Ock (As told to Doreen Zyderveld-Hagel} The horse blasted through the tough canvas material like it was a paper bag, leaving a gaping hole...
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