Monday, August 18th

Variably cloudy, with highs in the upper 70s through Wednesday. Clouds should break and temperatures rise into the lower 80s on Thursday and Friday.

On this day in 1896, a Tennessee newspaper publisher named Adolph Ochs plunked down $75,000 in borrowed money to gain a controlling interest in the financially struggling New York Times; in the process, he founded a family newspaper dynasty that continues to the present day.

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