But Speer spent 12 hours in the emergency room — at one point restrained by staff — waiting for a psych evaluation. Balhan didn’t know it then, but her dad’s experience at the hospital is so common it ...

Balhan didn’t know it then, but her dad’s experience at the hospital is so common it has a name: ER boarding. One in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital ...

Lake Erie might be in a colder climate, but it’s not free from snakes. The water snakes in this Great Lake are among the more feared despite being harmless to humans. They play an important role in ...

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — At her mother’s home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he’s smiling in front of a bucket of sweating beers and ...

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — At her mother’s home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he’s smiling in front of a bucket of sweating beers and ...

Despite its proven efficacy, DE still encounters challenges associated with rapid convergence and vulnerability to local optima. We introduce a novel methodology, namely binary tree population ...

His efforts were focused on a group of tree-dwelling snakes with a historically “confusing” classification system, he wrote in a study published April 4 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa.