Alex K., a high school senior from Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, IL, was named the champion of Shmoop’s inaugural high school essay contest. More than 500 high school students from around the globe entered the competition, which required students to analyze a poem by Robert Frost.

HARRISON — Spontaneous combustion in debris is blamed for a two-alarm fire Wednesday night that sent flames some 30 feet over a two-story home on Puritan Woods Road.

SO, YEAH, I bought Lycra! What of it?

Via our hyperlocal homepieces at the Center Square Journal comes this similarly specific yup-hop jam by The Pawns about the neighborhood some of us call home. In the tradition of ” Straight Outta Compton, ” ” Empire State of Mind, ” Wesley Willis’ ” Rock and Roll McDonalds “* and other seminal jams about locations comes “Rollin’ in the 2-5.” The 2-5 refers to the 60625 area code of the Lincoln …

HARRISON — Spontaneous combustion in debris is blamed for a two-alarm fire that sent flames some 30 feet over a two-story home on Puritan Woods Road Wednesday.

Bailey, a 1-year-old Labradoodle, is this week’s Pet of the Week.

The unforgiving and frigid city of Minneapolis is the country’s top spot to be an urban cyclist. Now we just have to figure out why.