When Franklin Roosevelt became President in 1933, the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression, with a ...

Larson Wile of Festus, soon to be 106, and Obie Young of Hematite, who turned 106 in September, both served in the U.S. Armed ...

You may have heard the name William Friedman, an expert cryptologist who broke codes for the U.S. Army during World Wars I ...

Lieutenant Michael Tibbs, who has died aged 102, served in convoys during the Second World War and took part in two of the ...

The MS Aurora, a 70-year-old cruise ship that inspired TV's 'The Love Boat,' sits abandoned in a slough outside Stockton. The ...

A steamboat named the Avalon was in disrepair when Jefferson County bought it for $34,000 in 1962. Then Louisville residents ...

The Tucker 48 might not have been able to take flight on a clear afternoon, but the short-lived muscle car would go on to ...

A deadly outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to a massive recall of popular Boar's Head deli meats made in a Virginia plant is over, federal health officials said Thursday.

Richmond police have identified the victim of a Wednesday morning shooting as a 17-year-old boy from Richmond. Officers were ...

Columnist J. Mark Powell writes the sinking of S.S. City of Benares was one of World World War II’s worst maritime tragedies; ...

Irish POWs were isolated in a special camp near Friesack, where they were bombarded with anti-British propaganda ...

Joe Biden toured the drought-shrunken waters of the Amazon River’s greatest tributary Sunday as the first sitting American ...