On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

Easter is coming soon. Is it a federal holiday? Will the mail come? Is the stock market open? Who gets the day off work? We have answers.

A United States senator has introduced legislation to make the day after Easter a federal holiday so families can more easily ...

City councilors are expected Monday to set a date and provide details for a sales tax election, said Mayor Patrick Cale. Discussion and possible action on an election had been scheduled for a special ...

In May 1943, floodwaters submerged the Russell Miller Milling Co. in Alton, with efforts to pump out the water underway.

Taylor Starling and her father Ryan are waging a political and legal battle over a trans athlete after Starling lost her ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. House on Thursday approved legislation requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for anyone ...

On April 16, 2007, Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life. It remains the deadliest school history in US history.

Observers of her political rise — and some who have sparred with her — say Gov. Janet Mills’s refusal to bow to President ...

Col. Lloyd M. Morris, director of the Blair County-Altoona Civil Defense Council, was presented the CD’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Citation, in ceremonies at the Pentagon in Washington, ...