One of five children of Anna and Tom Merkle, Tom Jr. was a standout athlete as a 1977 Bay City Handy graduate. He was a ...

Leaders in San Francisco are blasting the Trump administration for stripping the name of gay icon Harvey Milk from a U.S. naval ship.

Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was hospitalized last month while visiting Ohio to mark the 30th ...

Ron Helwer, a visionary agricultural entrepreneur and longtime community leader in Brandon, passed away on Friday at age 92.

Four Sarasota-Manatee restaurants closed, six opened — including a revived 50-year-old icon — and one saved by $40K drive ...

Joyce “Sally” Strouth, the beloved host of a children’s television show on KLBK Channel 13 from 1976 to 1980, has passed away ...

American gay rights activist Harvey Milk was known for keeping his face and name on the front pages of San Francisco’s newspapers. Now, as Pride Month begins, the Trump administration is set to take ...

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

When Larry Rubin died in 2010, everyone thought his cremains were interred beside his first wife at Greenwood Cemetery in ...

Dapto Dogs is set to run its final race by next June – leaving behind memories, mateship and a fading slice of working-class tradition.

The family of a beloved local icon is hosting an estate sale ... Rhodes passed away last December after decades of involvement in the community, welcoming people into his piece of "pumpkin ...

Bobby's journey to becoming a local icon began when Charlie Clark discovered ... the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.