Regarding Bob Gorrell’s cartoon about guns (Drawn & Quartered, Opinion, Jan. 12): The right side of the cartoon has a drawing of a hammer, and says that it was “used in 496 murders during 2011.” The ...

Don’t have a rubber mallet on hand? Convert a ball peen hammer into a mini mallet with an old rubber furniture foot. Mallets are great for assembling furniture and tapping wood into place, without ...

Snap-On dead blow ball peen hammers are available in a range of sizes: eight-ounce (HBBD8), 16-oz. (HBBD16), 24-oz. (HBBD24), 32-oz. (HBBD32) and 40-oz. (HBBD40). The hammer’s polished steel head has ...

Why is a wrench with an adjustable jaw called a “monkey wrench”? Why do we pry with a “crowbar”? Why do we secure a nut and bolt with a “washer”? Open up your toolbox, and see whether you can choose ...

HAINES, Alaska — Dave Pahl has a museum on Main Street featuring more than 1,200 kinds of hammers. “I like hammers.” Jim Szymanski spent four years roaming remote regions of Alaska to collect antique ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A Newcomerstown man was sentenced Friday for killing his mother with a hammer and the attempted murder of his sister in 2016. Charles A. Plants, 32, received 30 years to life in ...

A 59-year-old man a prosecutor called "the malingering murderer" probably will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Merced County jury determined Friday he was sane when he bludgeoned and ...