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“A person walking in Mountainside Park . . . called police when she saw two men sitting at a picnic table without any pants.” I knew that picnic tables had legs, but only after reading this newspaper ...

Battling cancer is hard enough for a child. But having to also battle a sibling is simply too much. Such was the conclusion you might draw from reading a headline in a recent story in the Daily Herald ...

I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know how to keep ...

(CN) - A misplaced modifier in an insurance contract may be a "syntactical sin," but it doesn't require Travelers Insurance to reimburse Payless ShoeSource for a $2.45 million class-action settlement, ...

- a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us' ...