My new nephew Drazen, just over a week old.

Big brother Cole admires his new brother.

I had the pleasure of taking a long weekend recently, boarding a plane, and visiting my little sister and her newly expanded family.  She gave birth…

Trick or treaters are gathered for a Halloween celebrations on the North Lawn of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 in Washington. The first family welcomed more than 2,600 children from Washington, Maryland and Virginia schools, and their families,…

Today I covered a high school football game in Breese Ill. The last 20 minutes of my drive I enjoyed a beautiful yellow sunset through the rear view mirror of my car. I kept hoping I would get to my…

See the little second story window between these two men? I’m going to enlarge that area so that you can see what I saw. Maybe you will see an image in the window. Maybe you won’t.

I am generally not a…

“I feel like we’re in Seattle,” said Ed Morton as he tried to keep dry while selling pumpkins at the Lafayette Area Optimist Club’s pumpkin patch on Manchester Road.   Because of so much rain, the wettest October on record, Morton…

We’re in the last stretch of Halloween. Trick or Treaters are feasting on candy clad in their costumes. And it’s almost time for the curtain to come down on the haunted houses in the region. The month-long ghouls and ghosts…

One joy of feature hunting is coming across crazy stuff like this. I found this plumber butt scarecrow on Botanical Avenue between January and Sublette Avenues on the Hill. I’ll let the picture speak for itself. Happy early Halloween.

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