Cookies are health food, or at least they seemed so to those who enjoyed them, during the third annual Downtown Cookie Walk on Dec. 14 in Edwardsville. “I don’t count eating cookies as caloric intake ...

"I’m reminding myself that I’m an adult woman who gets to choose how I do holidays — for now, anyway. I’m going to enjoy it ...

She’s the rarest of seniors: a centenarian who is sharp as a tack, who carries grocery bags in each hand when she walks back ...