Among the orders issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War was one declaring that all enslaved people in the state were now free, and had “absolute equality.” (AP Video: ...

If you visit Bedford VA (located about 28 miles east of Roanoke), you won’t get far before you realize how much of an impact ...

If you're wondering why you're not seeing certain animals on a hike, you may need an altitude adjustment. Head uphill to catch these elevation-loving animals.

Rehaan Alumed: Son of Sharif Alumed. College prep. Plans to go to Temple University for accounting. Austin Andrefski: Son of Jeremiah Andrefski, Pottsville, and Lisa Cutler, Middleport. College prep.

Michayla Snyder Michayla Bast, Orwigsburg, daughter of Lindsay and Michael Bast, attends Blue Mountain High School and the culinary program at Schuylkill Technology Center. Michayla is a member of ...

The company plans to build a uranium enrichment facility in the Roane County part of Oak Ridge. The multi-billion dollar project is the single largest investment in the history of the state ...

The closure began just before 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28, according to traffic data from 511NY. All lanes in both directions were closed. As of 3 p.m., they have reopened. According to New York State ...

Not all rats are sewer or subway denizens skittering away with someone’s slice of pizza (and then going viral for it). In the remote mountain rainforests of Papua New Guinea, there is a creature ...

Not all rats are sewer or subway denizens skittering away with someone’s slice of pizza (and then going viral for it). In the remote mountain rainforests of Papua New Guinea, there is a creature that ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn about when you read this story. Mallomys istapantap is the largest (and also least studied) species of woolly rat in New Guinea, and it has finally been documented in ...

He captured the footage right at the end of his six-month expedition to the mountains of New Guinea, where the subalpine woolly rat is native to. It is the largest species of rat in the Australia ...