In the dog days of summer the sun beats down harder and the nights grow longer. With the school year over, there’s an elevated risk of youth violence and arrests. The racist “superpredator” caricature ...

Summer Games Done Quick is officially over after a marathon week of speedrunning games for a good cause, and the organizers say it raised a total of $2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders in that time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's swimming pool season. Parents are debating whether that means their kids can skip baths. (Jordan Siemens via Getty Images) ...

Editor's Note: Air quality alerts were issued Monday afternoon as temperatures begin to rise. Our latest story can be found here. Another heat wave will hit the Chicago area this week, but this one ...

France has recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during its historic summer heat wave, marking the country's deadliest heat-related toll in more than two decades, Public Health France announced ...

Things started to look a little hairy going into the last day of the marathon, but Summer Games Done Quick ended on a high note to raise a substantial amount of money for charity. This year's SGDQ ...

Pools are hard. This is not news to anyone who owns one, but the uninitiated may not know about the inordinate amount of daily labor and chores that lie behind a pool’s clear, sparkling, perfectly ...

The second heat wave of the summer is bringing air quality concerns with it. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says this week's concerns center around ozone pollution, something that isn't ...

Dunelm reports 2.9% rise in quarterly sales DFS says order intake fell 4.4% in the six months to June Both retailers kept their annual profit outlooks unchanged Shares in Dunelm rise 5%, while DFS ...

Boris Oicherman, who moved to town last fall to become executive director of Wave Pool, calls himself a “double immigrant.” He grew up in Russia, moved to Israel as a young adult, and came to the U.S.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Welcome to Day 1 of what looks to be four to five consecutive days of sunshine as our next heat streak begins to take shape. We've been highlighting this developing heat wave for more ...