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Illinois bird watchers - it might be time for a mini road trip.

Looking at the results of a recently-published study on the most and least educated cities in the United States reminded me of a couple of quotes. One, from John Belushi in Animal House: "7 years of college down the drain," and the other from my dad: "Did 9 years of high school teach you nothing?"

What started out as a garage fire quickly became a huge explosion when the fire reached a 100 pound propane tank that the owner was storing in the garage.

If you want to visit beautiful beaches without taking a flight to the tropics, plan a trip to Pictured Rocks, Michigan.

This seems to be a soiled relationship.

Mixing up your eyedrops with a tube of super glue sounds like something that you'd see in a sitcom or movie, but a Michigan woman will tell you that in spite of the cartoon-like premise, it actually does happen.

If ever you've witnessed the weather spectacle known as light pillars, then you understand the state of awe it can cause as it did recently in the sky over Houghton and Hancock, twin cities at the very tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Greg and Kjersten Offenbecker run a bed and breakfast in St. Johns, Michigan, called the Nordic Pineapple, and things have gotten weird for them.

Time to break out the metal detector.

A giant cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert has crossed the Atlantic Ocean over the last week, and is now in the Caribbean. Experts say it's headed here next.