K.T. Bahr of Lynnwood said it was a slow addiction. It was something she called “evening meltdown time.”
She liked doing it because all of her head chatter left while she got her fix.
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Rebecca Holmes is shown with one of the games she regularly plays, “Hexic,” in her office at Duo [...]

Reading may be fundamental, but too many boys in middle school lack that critical educational building block.
For the last decade, educators fretted over the academic gender gap — girls outperforming boys on standardized tests — yet the divide remains obvious in reading.
There is plenty of blame to go around — disengaged parents, uninterested publishing houses, [...]

In Court TV’s Murder by the Book (tonight at 10 pm/ET), noted crime-fiction writers discuss cases that they find intriguing. Tonight, New York Times best-selling author Lisa Scottoline, a lawyer herself, walks viewers through the investigation into the grisly murder of a young mother from Decatur, Illinois. Scottoline %26#8212; whose new novel, Lady Killer, comes [...]

OSLO, Norway — Former Vice President Al Gore is a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize — if you believe some experts. Problem is, they’re only guessing.The Nobel awards, which are to be announced next week, cover a range of human endeavor, from peacemaking to scientific discovery to literature, yet share a tradition of mystery [...]

MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Twenty-five years ago come Sept. 14, one of the great modern fairy tales came to an abrupt end when — under circumstances that still seem slightly mysterious — Princess Grace Kelly died in a car crash on a twisty mountain road above this tiny Mediterranean principality.
Over that quarter century, Monaco [...]

Forty-five years after it was released, the film version of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” remains one of the most beloved of all Hollywood classics. In a 1995 American Film Institute poll, it placed 34th in the list of great American films. Over the years, whenever I’ve asked a filmmaker his or her all-time [...]