Cutting through the heart of the Bywater, Norfolk Southern's railway has caused frustration over its frequent traffic delays ...

After Military.com's reporting, CBS confirmed the defense secretary's plans to rename seven other naval ships who honor civic ...

Was Sally Miller a lost German immigrant or a brilliant woman who outsmarted the slavery system? This 180-year-old mystery ...

THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife Coretta after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., March 22, 1956. Dr. King was found guilty of conspiracy to boycott city buses ...

The playwright, John Pollono, gave him a copy of “Townie,” a memoir by Andre Dubus III about violence, masculinity and ...

Take a look at some of the fun and informational home and garden events happening in the greater New Orleans area.

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John Horhn won the Democratic primary for Jackson mayor but may not have secured the required majority to avoid a runoff. Incumbent Chokwe Antar Lumumba came in second, and Tim Henderson came in ...

Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “ Bleak House ,” he invented the epic, decades-spanning Jarndyce v.

The rain was heavy for parts of last weekend in the Washington, D.C. area. Seeing it coming down in sheets, it got me thinking about how people used to live. How ...

A military base named for Army Sgt. Henry Johnson, a Black Medal of Honor recipient from Albany who Theodore Roosevelt described as one of the “five bravest Americans” to serve in World War I, will ...

The magnitude of D-Day -- the 150,000 Allied service personnel who participated, the 4,415 Allied troops killed, the 12 countries that were part of the invasion -- is plain for everyone to see ...