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Some of life's mysteries just are not meant to be solved. Why is water wet? How did people first realize you can toast bread? Some things we just aren't meant to know. Here's another. Why did some Illinois schools get so fired up that they banned one specific snack from their lunchrooms forever? It's a mystery.

Many new laws go into effect every year in Illinois but this one could cause some controversy in our state.

Illinois is taking a significant step forward in an effort to reduce plastic pollution by passing a bill that would ban the use of disposable food containers.

When it comes to restaurants, tipping is always a hot button topic. Most servers rely on tips to help make ends meet, especially in states like Indiana where hourly wages for servers are usually somewhere between $2 and $3 per hour, which makes the tip even more important.

The State of Kentucky has reported numerous and escalating violent incidents immediately following some high school sporting events including Football, soccer and volleyball in the last three years. As a result, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association has banned postgame handshakes, which has long been the symbol of sportsmanship in this country.

A few months back, I wrote an article about a proposed ban on super-sized sodas and sugary drinks in New York City that you can read here. NYC officials felt they had to do something about the growing, (no pun intended), obesity problem in that city and around the country as a whole. As you can imagine, there was a tremendous amount of backlash aimed at the proposal by drink manufacturers, restaur

Those of us who watched Peyton Manning over the last 14 years as the Indianapolis Colts quarterback probably felt a little strange last night to see Manning in a Denver Broncos uniform taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Our discomfort was made even worse because Manning had a 'vintage' Peyton Manning night and shredded the Steelers defense to give the Broncos a 1-0 start to the Manning era... Read

The French government is notorious for banning the use of English words as a way of maintaining French language and culture. However, a recent ruling by the French government, which now makes it illegal to speak the words "Facebook" or "Twitter" on television or radio newscasts, isn't as shocking as you might think.

It's prom season in the tri-state and before you find a creative way to ask someone, read this story first. High school senior James Tate decided to go big when he asked friend Sonali Rodrigues to the prom last Friday. So, in the middle of the night, he taped large cardboard letters spelling out "Sonali Rodrigues, Will you go to prom with me? HMU - Tate" on an exterior wall of Shelton Hi