Customs and Tradition

You're deeply in love; you envision being a couple forever. Yet for whatever reason, a wedding ceremony officializing your commitment isn't on the agenda. Don't let that prevent you from celebrating. "So long as you're respectful of your guests, I...

BOSTON — Torey Krug can be forgiven for not having a favorite Bruins game tradition. In the five home games he has played at TD Garden in the last two months, the defenseman has been a little more concerned with making his playoff debut. But the...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pressuring welfare recipients to get a job or face losing their benefits may put them at a slightly increased risk of dying over the long term, according to new research. A study that tracked Floridians on welfare over...

* Relations strained recently, especially over women priests * New leaders seen as more worldly-wise than predecessors By Catherine Hornby VATICAN CITY, June 14 (Reuters) - Pope Francis and the new head of the world's Anglicans acknowledged deep...

Everything seems to keep getting more expensive. But summer fun doesn't have to drain your pocketbook. There are free activities all over the Lehigh Valley, from theater performances to movies to bowling. Some activities are just for the kids, but there...

Q. I am part of a nonqualified defined contribution plan. If the company files for bankruptcy, is my balance secure? — P.H. A. Probably not. To get favorable tax treatment, qualified defined contribution plans, such as 401(k)s, must comply with...

Genre mash-ups are de rigueur these days. Of course, writers like Margaret Atwood have been tight-roping the misty border between literary fiction and speculative fiction, fantasy and mystery for years. But a new outcropping of younger upstarts, such as...

It takes a trained ear to know the call of the grasshopper sparrow. Or a bobolink. Or even a meadowlark. For Wendy Paulson, standing in the grasslands of North Barrington and focusing her telescope on a rare savannah sparrow for all to see, it brings...

"Being a writer and a Texan," Larry McMurtry wrote in the late 1960s, "is an amusing fate." What he was addressing was the shift, in the years after World War II, "from the land to the cities" and what he saw as "the dying of … the rural,...

Beaver Creek Christian Church, the Rev. Mark Curran will preach at the 9:30 a.m. service Sunday on “Offering Good News.” Lay leader is Sandy Curran. Sunday school follows worship. Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren, Pastor Rachel Black...

Lisa Tonner was living in Fairfield County and knew nothing about Paganism when, in the late 1980s, she accepted an invitation to go to the city. "My friend said, 'Do you want to go to New York? We're going to a magic shop'," she recalled. "And I...

The Bradley Foundation, a private, independent grant-making organization based in Milwaukee, recently handed out its annual Bradley Prize to four men who have, in the words of the organization's mission statement, "(preserved and defended) the tradition...