By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN One of the best ways to serve banana bread is with toasted nuts. Toasting nuts in the oven makes them taste better. Spread the nuts out on a rimmed baking sheet and heat the nuts in a 350 F oven until you can smell them, which takes about 5 minutes. Once the ...

MARQUETTE — Having already successfully graduated two cohorts of students, the Marquette-Alger Technical Middle College celebrated its fifth year of operation Thursday at the Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency. Many of these graduated students have completed their ...

Some people think video games are bad for you. I am definitely not one of those people. I started playing video games in preschool and most of them were educational video games or ones where you stand up and get exercise. The first console I ever played on was a Wii. A lot of video games that ...

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. — High school senior Zachary Brown already knows he wants to return to his hometown in northern Vermont after college. But he’s able to have a say about its future now. Brown, 17, joined a new committee that’s allowing him and 10 ...

By VALERIE WELLS Decatur Herald & Review AP Member Exchange DECATUR, Ill. — Otiyuna Franklin’s experiences as a parent mentor at French Academy have opened her eyes to a career path. She’s working toward becoming a teaching assistant. “My interest in doing this is because ...

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