Alex Ashlock

It’s been 20 years since Kurt Cobain, leader of the rock band Nirvana, committed suicide. It was April 5, 1994, and his death left a legion of fans grieving his loss. But according to a new book, Cobain lives on in Nirvana’s music, and you can still see ...

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If you look at the list of the worst coal mine disasters in U.S. history, three of them happened in Illinois, where I grew up.

The one we are featuring today on Here & Now took place in Centralia on March 25, 1947.

An explosion killed 111 ...

British soldier Liam Tasker served in Afghanistan with a Springer Spaniel named Theo. They worked together to find improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other hidden weapons. The soldier’s colleagues said they were a match made in heaven. Shortly after Lance Corporal Tasker was killed by enemy fire in 2011, Theo ...

The writer Jack Kerouac is best known for his 1957 novel “On The Road,” but he wrote many other books and one of them has been lost to history until now.

“The Haunted Life” has just been published for the first time (excerpt below). It’s a coming of age ...

Forty-four years ago tonight, North Carolina State beat South Carolina 44-39 in double overtime to win the Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina. That wasn’t supposed to happen. And it left the captain of the team, Bobby Cremins, so heartbroken, he and another player on the team ...

I’m happy to live in Boston and have been for the last 16 years. But I must admit I miss the Midwest. I came here from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, which is also where Here & Now co-host Jeremy Hobson grew up. In fact I worked with Jeremy’s high school class ...

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined his plan for a downsized military. The plan will shrink the Army to its smallest size since the eve of World War II. At that time, there were around 270,000 active duty soldiers, a number that surged to nearly 1.5 million during ...

Oregon had Steve Prefontaine. Illinois had Craig Virgin. Both high school were runners from small towns who reached world class heights.

Prefontaine grew up in Coos Bay. He went to the University of Oregon and became a legend, running with a passion that set the track on fire. Tragically, Pre ...

“I think it’s an illegally fast track,” said Alberto Salazar with a twinkle in his eye. The legendary marathoner, who is now a coach, was standing on the infield inside the indoor track at Boston University last night. He had just seen his star pupil, Galen Rupp

I love college football but there’s too darn much of it on television these days. It used to be that college games were played only on Saturday afternoon, but the 2013 season started Thursday night. There are games Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night and Monday night. TV drives the ...

The Replacements were an unruly rock band that emerged from Minneapolis in the ’80s. They broke up in 1991 but are still much-beloved. This weekend they are playing their first show in more than 20 years. Here & Now producer Alex Ashlock is one of ...