A boy and a dog sit in the shade near a lake in MacArthur Park. (Photo by USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images) Air conditioning is a comfort that many people take for granted when temperatures soar ...

Summer in Wilmington got off to a hot start, with a record-setting 99-degree day on June 24 and more scorchers sure to follow. On the hottest of days it can be hard to fathom that, for most of ...