Former Friars great rejoins the basketball program as an assistant coach; and 12 stunning spots to photograph in RI this ...

The HMS Ark Royal gained a near-mythical reputation as an unsinkable carrier early in World War II, surviving multiple German claims of her destruction. That illusion was shattered on November 13, ...

In this documentary, we are going to examine the events surrounding probably the most significant sinking of a ship by a ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship ... because the engagement that led to its sinking has an undeniably local name. You’ve heard, of course, of the Battle of the Bulge ...

An American oil tanker sinks in 1942 after being torpedoed by a German U-boat. In 1942 and 1943 over 50 oil tankers, freighters and other ships were sunk by German U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico ...

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a ... naval engagement that led to its sinking, which has an undeniably local ...

Read this week's What and Why RI to learn more about U-853 and the naval engagement that led to its sinking, which has an undeniably local name. Mark Patinkin: A German U-boat brought WWII to RI's ...

Reality can be stranger than fiction, but sometimes the two intersect, as it did when Sharon Coldiron recently was reading James Lee Burke's 1994 novel, "Dixie City Jam." In it, the best-selling ...