Today's News

I think I recently contracted a case of acute text message syndrome. My fingers ache, I ignore my surroundings to finish a message and I will have whole conversations without actually speaking.

Alright, you probably know this isn't a real disease. But it might as well be an epidemic sweeping America. People complain about teenagers texting all the time, but I actually received a text from my mother the other day.

Clean up at Legion Park is almost finished, but the reconstruction has yet to begin, said Terry Rice, Kentucky's public relations director for the American Legion and a Lawrenceburg resident.

Straight-line winds nearing 50 mph removed what appeared to be a 100-foot section of the grandstand's roof and destroyed Lawrenceburg's Healing Field, the only permanent healing field in the nation, during a storm on June 9. The storm was one of the worst to hit Lawrenceburg in years, according to officials.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will hold a supplemental sales period for people who failed to get an alligator hunt permit or those who would like to return a permit with the hope of trying to obtain another.

This additional sales period will help reduce any inconveniences caused by a computer programming glitch during the initial sales period on Tuesday, June 3.

I occasionally receive books or articles about hiking, backpacking and river rafting from friends and relatives who are aware of my passion for those activities.

My brother, who is the very antithesis of an outdoorsman (he believes the great outdoors is the space between the car door and the house door,) recently forwarded a story about Dan Neil's solo sojourn in a desert park west of Los Angeles.

Neil, a Los Angeles Times staff writer, recently embarked on what was intended to be a 75-mile springtime hike through Joshua Tree National Park.