Pope Francis walked through a narrow alley in Iraq's holy city of Najaf for a historic meeting with the country's top Shiite cleric Saturday, and together they delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence in a country still reeling from back-to-back conflicts over the past decade.

After growing cobwebs for nearly a year, movie theaters in New York City reopen Friday, returning film titles to Manhattan marquees that had for the last 12 months instead read messages like "Wear a mask" and "We'll be back soon."

I'm told mullets are making a comeback.

Two local authors weave stories from history in their latest releases, while another has had a screenplay optioned.

I was living with my grandparents, Adrian and Miz Lena, on their farm in Middle Tennessee, just outside of Columbia.

Cyberbullying has been on the rise for a while, but it has escalated during the pandemic.

The greatest life-changing story ever told is that Jesus died for you, which proves he loved you more than anything in the world.

DEAR ABBY: This is a delicate situation.

I feel blessed, really, that at 50 years of age I am not on any medication of any kind, not even for blood pressure.

"A WINDOW TO HEAVEN: THE DARING FIRST ASCENT OF DENALI, AMERICA'S WILDEST PEAK" by Patrick Dean (Pegasus Books, 336 pages, $28).

Recently, a woman wrote to us with a question I found both moving and important:

Roses have a reputation for being difficult to grow and disease-prone. But who's really to blame?

DEAR ABBY: I'm married to the most patient, loving and wonderful husband in the world. Recently, I had a falling-out with his friend group. I admit I was not a good friend due to mental illness, an

DEAR ABBY: I suspect that something has been going on with my husband and our daughter-in-law.

After a year and a half, the Miss Universe competition will return with a live telecast on May 16.

With a new $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package working its way through the United States Congress, one demographic group can almost taste its first bite at the apple.

This week's entertainment offerings are mostly musical and mostly lighthearted — even the hospice talk, if you ask Sherry Campbell, co-founder and director of Welcome Home of Chattanooga, which serves the terminally ill.

The Tennessee State Museum will showcase 100 artifacts online and in person to commemorate Tennessee's 225 years of statehood.

Dolly Parton has written hundreds of songs over her decades-long career and it turns out her tune "Jolene" is the just right one for getting her COVID-19 vaccine.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 49-year-old woman who has been in a romantic relationship with a good, caring man for two years.

This week's restaurant report card.

Muscle Shoals, Alabama, has been a mecca for musicians since the 1960s, but that storied history is only part of the reason to visit the state's upper northwest corner.

Dean Donnell, food and beverage director at Marriott Shoals Hotel and Spa, begins his workday around 9 a.m., visiting all of his chefs and managers.