Racewalking is walking. Really. It looks awkward. And it feels awkward. At first. The feet move forward, stepping along an imaginary 2-by-4. Hips roll. Arms pump. Elbows swing, right, left, right Once you get the rhythm, form and rules, it’s easy Read more

SCOTT CITY — The corn was roasting, the turkey legs were cooking and the funnel cakes were frying Saturday at the Scott City Whimmydiddle Arts and Crafts Festival. Arts and craft goers had plenty of time to walk the extra calories off when walking Read more

Bite into the Big Apple this month and you might taste Czech spice. Tom Stoppard s play Rock n Roll opened on Broadway Nov. 5 to glowing reviews. Before the stagehands strike darkened most theaters the following weekend, the house was packed Read more

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is supposed to ensure the safety of most children’s products. But the CPSC, as Tribune reporters have detailed over the last year and a half, has often fallen down on the job. A Simplicity crib with fatal design Read more

Toys “R” Us Inc., one of the nation’s biggest retailers of nursery furniture, is forcing cribmakers to build sturdier products to avoid a potentially deadly hazard. Asserting that government and industry safety rules don’t protect children from the Read more

Drive up and hand over your hazardous waste. The Largo Solid Waste Facility, 1551 Starkey Road, will be open for the community to drop off electronics and chemicals today from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Items may include not only pesticides, paints and Read more