There were more than 523.2 million cases of heart disease in 2019 – up 26.6 percent from 2010, according to updated statistics from the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease and Stroke 2021 report. 

It was the best Valentine’s Day gift ever. How do I know this? Because Momma said so, that’s why. And momma, of course, is always right. 

Such a simple word, one wonders how it can be both overused and underused. 

I once thought that the world would end in a “boom,” but nowadays I fear we will all perish in a “Zoom.” 

Remember playing pirate as a child, banding together with a crew of neighborhood kids to search for an imaginary chest filled with gold doubloons?

South Carolina is a very independent-spirited and business-minded state, so it’s not necessarily surprising that the design of our state flag has been outsourced to the private sector for decades. 

When I moved to LaGrange, Georgia, from Tennessee as a fifteen-year-old, my first Georgia beau was Dan Larry Payne.

Like many Americans, I tuned in on Jan. 20 and watched as Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States.

I do not think it is possible to look back on our recent national elections and subsequent events and not conclude that our country is at a crossroads.

FLT postpones season due to pandemic 

Looking to check attending Mardi Gras off your bucket list? This year you’ll have your chance. Well, sort of.

Southern winters are a lot like Southern women I have known: they can come at you bone-chilling cold one day, with dark, threatening clouds that can bring down trees and power lines with their iciness; then burn you like a fat-lighter-pine fire the next.

The new year on the roads has already claimed 27 lives in South Carolina.

If you’re reading this on the day it was published, then tomorrow is my birthday. At least according to my momma it is.

Welcome to 2021. While we may breath a sigh of relief and bid 2020 a fond farewell, this is no time to take the threat of COVID-19 pandemic any less serious.