Several Akron-Canton area libraries earned high marks in a recent national ranking. The Stark County District Library in Canton, which serves a population of 250,000 people, is ranked ninth on the annual Hennen's American Public Library Ratings (HAPLR).

We know that teens make choices that can affect their lives forever. Too often those choices involve alcohol. On an average day, almost 8,000 adolescents ages 12 to 17 in the United States, drink alcohol for the first time.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008, is World Asthma Day and the National Asthma Council Australia is urging the two million plus Australians with asthma to prepare, or update, their asthma action plans. According to National Asthma Council Australia chairman, Professor

President Bush, hoping to inoculate his party and his presidential legacy from election-year anger over the economy, heaped criticism on the Democratic-led Congress on Tuesday for "letting the American people down."

A bald eagle plunges from the sky, hooks his talons into a salmon that he plucks from the water, then wings his dinner toward shore. At that moment it is easy to spot the tourists on the top deck of the Queen of Capilano, because their mouths hang as wide