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Bart D. Ehrman, a prominent figure in religious studies, will speak at 7 p.m. today in Newlin Hall on the Centre College campus. Ehrman’s talk coincides with a poster display celebrating the anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible in...

Even though your house may appear to rest on solid ground, there is still the possibility you may find yourself suddenly awakened in the middle of the night by the rumble of your bedroom floor opening into a massive hole, sliding you and the contents of...

There he stood. Under a basket at Princeton University’s Dillon Gymnasium. In his basketball practice uniform. Still sweating from a demanding workout. Now he caught questions, not basketballs, passed to him by the acclaimed writer John McPhee. On...

East Middle students win in poster contest East Jessamine Middle School gifted and talented students participated in the annual Kentucky JumpStart Coalition poster contest for Kentucky Saves Week. Two EJMS students — seventh-grader Makayla Wade and...

Partnership between West Jessamine High School and Sutherland Chevrolet Caps off with Check Presentation West Jessamine High School Assistant Principal Jimmy Brehm was presented a check for $1,400 by Louis Glaver of Sutherland Chevrolet as the final...

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller — The Beatles, “Come Together” In all the books and magazine articles I’ve read about Ronald Reagan, I had never come across this weird...

Inscrutable ice giants Neptune and Uranus have only a thin rind of windy weather over their fluid contents, a team of planetary scientists say. The research published in the journal Nature relies on decades-old data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft -- and...

Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched gears, penning his doctoral thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...

The use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, a practice that has dramatically escalated during the Obama administration, is receiving fresh and welcome scrutiny in Congress and elsewhere even as the number of drone strikes seems to be on the...

SOUTH BEND -- The Rev. Brian E. Daley, a theology professor at the University of Notre Dame, received the Johannes Quasten Medal of Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership in Religious Studies last week from Catholic University's School of Theology and...

If you think today's university is home to individual thinkers thinking individually, think again. Today's university is international and multinational in every way — blown open, in great part, by this century's digital explosion of information....

One day last year, a 9-year-old named Thomas came home and announced he was running for office. "Are you kidding me?" his father responded. "Don't we have enough elections in this family?" Thomas, the son of Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel, has...