Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine ...

Johnson's ominous warning before a church audience Monday night has fueled speculation about a high-level political purge as ...

Jackie White, a native of Centralia, Illinois, in 1968 became the first Black person to officiate an NBA game.

1969: Controversial University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon — who inspired a more than two-week sit-in by ...

The three-term congressman said Trump's ceaseless directives are causing "unnecessary confusion in their failed attempts to improve government efficiencies." ...

The Lake County Council agreed to reallocate $600,000 to hire 12 contracted emergency dispatchers to try to alleviate the workload at the short-staffed 911 center.

A woman from Rhode Island died Saturday after her vehicle crashed into a median on Interstate 95 in Palmyra. Police responded to the scene on I-95 northbound near mile marker 155 at about 7:15 a.m.

"I was determined to tell my story directly to the people rather than to funnel it to them through a press account." --Richard Nixon, Six Crises by Dav ...

The high school friends and family members wowed the battle-of-the-bands circuit before recording a highly coveted single on ...

The 15th class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame will be inducted Friday night and headlined by Ricky Rudd and Carl Edwards, drivers ...

Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...

The Astrodome was new then. “The Eighth Wonder of the World” they called it. It was an indoor stadium built in a city that ...