A former sophomore baseball coach who had little idea how to coach bowling took a swing at a new girls program in 1992. Mr. Ken Maas taught math at MCHS, and he had bowled in one league in college and another later near his home in Morris. But he was the name the first girls bowling coach in Minooka...

Why do people like watching “a live monkey being struck in the head with a hammer, having its skull cracked opened, and its brain served as dessert?"  Psychology might give us the answer. Anyone that finds horror films entertaining only watches them for one obvious motive: to be frightened. Others...

Thirty million people are now battling chronic kidney disease across the United States, including Carl Edwards, my dad. He is 39 years old and has been battling chronic kidney disease for over a decade. Carl has two daughters — Bryanna Edwards and me, his oldest daughter — with his wife Alexandra...

The scholastic bowl team ended their season with a 370-340 loss to Coal City at the LaSalle-Peru 2A Regional. "(Coal City) was ranked 7th in our sectional, and I was very proud of our unranked Minooka varsity team for coming back to even the score, even if we didn't win the match,” said head coach...

The Minooka Indians dropped their matchup against Joliet Catholic on April 2, 10-8. The Indians collected eight hits on the day and junior Sammy Norman took the mound and allowed three earned runs, on 10 hits over 7 innings for Minooka. JCA took the game on a walk-off single in the bottom of...