State Representative Susan Williams Gifford, the House minority whip, died Tuesday. She was 64. According to her campaign, she died of cancer while at home, “surrounded by loved ones.” ...

Advertisement Enter the whip-poor-wills. Several of them, King writes, "had begun to lift their shrilling call," the demand for violence that gives the species its name: whip-poor-will.

This large, multi-element antenna is about as high-gain an option ... fixed to a central pod that holds a short output-cable “whip” terminated with a standard F-connector.

Mr Clapp said the conditions could whip up isolated thunderstorms for parts of western and southern Queensland today. “Up to 9C above October averages today,” Metrologist Patch Clapp said.

Paulson Adebo became the latest New Orleans Saints player to succumb to a serious injury after the cornerback had to be carted off the field in the game against the Denver Broncos on Thursday ...