Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every state's nickname.

A man at a beach near Gordon's Bay in the Western Cape shared a video of a large elephant seal making its way to shore. Some ...

There's a part of Rhode Island that feels just like Italy, especially when it comes to food. Here's why you should visit this ...

Check out One Pelham East, a multi-level bar and nightclub that’s been keeping Newport dancing since 1974. Live music, DJs, ...

For a more intimate experience, try the Francis Malbone House, a meticulously restored colonial home in the heart of downtown ...

Bolin, 97, definitely deserves his Quilt of Valor, which he received Monday in a ceremony at Grand Island’s Veterans Administration Medical Center. Bolin served in the Navy from 1950 to 1954 ...

Depending on the maps one consults, says the Virginia historian Brent Tarter, the colony’s earliest boundaries reached as far north as present-day New Jersey and south to the Carolinas ...

KODIKARA / AFP) Sri Lanka’s leftist president marked the anniversary of independence from Britain on Tuesday with a pledge to change the impoverished island nation’s image as a “corrupt ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Update Tuesday, Jan. 28: Rock Island County Coroner Brian Gustafson has identified the 16-year-old killed in a Sunday night shooting in Rock Island. The victim has been ...

An earthquake off the coast of Maine rattled parts of Rhode Island around 10:22 a.m. Monday morning. According to data from the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake originated about ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old ... the lost colony of Roanoke that scholars have spent hundreds of years searching for. In 1587, a group of colonists arrived at an island between ...