Top Sports stories of 2025
1) Ewen-Trout Creek girls advance to state final
The Ewen-Trout Creek Panthers girls basketball team defeated Concord in the state semifinals to earn a chance to play for a state title for the first time since 1985. The Panthers, who finished 27-2 on the season, ...
It was a year local political controversy, reactions to national policies, local protests and rain ... a lot of rain. Here's a look back at stories that made news in 2025, in no particular order.
Here comes the rain again
Heavy rains in June and again in July caused considerable damage to ...
Dear Annie: I've been happily married for 18 years, and for most of that time I've slept poorly — but lately it's become unbearable. My husband falls asleep within minutes and snores loudly and steadily through the night. I lie awake listening, nudging him, turning him onto his side, putting ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I had a routine ultrasound to check my kidneys because my father (who is 80) has kidney disease, and his urologist said that it is genetic and that my sister and I should get a baseline screening. I am 50.
My doctor called me the following morning saying that there was an ...
Dear Annie: I really enjoy reading your column. I have a problem of my own I'd like some help with.
I have two daughters in university. When they're home, they stay in their rooms or maybe talk to friends on the phone. They hardly talk to me. They go back to school and I'm home alone. I ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: In 2021, I drove to the hospital with chest and back pain. I was told that I needed an emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder. During the procedure, I suffered a heart rhythm disturbance, which they were able to stabilize. (Months later, a doctor indicated that they had to ...