Have you considered volunteering this year? Check with local libraries, museums and courthouses. Perhaps they need volunteers to help with projects or to lead tours or explain projects to visitors. As ...

A new Netflix series, "Death by Lightning," has renewed interest in the life of President James A. Garfield. Several historical sites in northeast Ohio, known as the Garfield Trail, honor the late ...

The Robin death that shook up the Bat-Family for years now also has a place in Wonder Woman’s mythos. There isn’t a comic book fan alive who isn’t at least somewhat familiar with Jason Todd’s brutal ...

A grand jury has indicted a Cumberland County man on charges that he stabbed his grandfather to death as the victim slept. Shawn A. Moir, 27, is accused of stabbing Albert B. Moir, 59, multiple times ...

The quiet, upscale Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood prides itself on being Hollywood’s safe haven — a billionaire bubble where A-listers can grab coffee, eat at low-key restaurants, and disappear ...

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty. Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead of stab ...

A man shot to death last week on a Queens street lived a troubled life but that did not keep him from being a devoted dad who doted on his two kids, relatives said. Oliver Nava, 27, was killed outside ...

Hollywood is reeling after the death of legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner and the shocking arrest of his son, Nick Reiner, who is currently being held on bail in Los Angeles on an unspecified felony ...

Viola Floyd Fletcher passed away on Nov. 24. At 111, she was the oldest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, a pogrom and an act of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by thousands of white people that ...

Born in Massachusetts on July 4, 1868, Henrietta Swan Leavitt attended the country’s first co-ed college, Oberlin, before completing her degree at the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women ...

The police chief said her "heart aches" for Brianna Aguilera's parents. The mysterious death of Texas A&M student Brianna Aguilera has been ruled a suicide, police said, noting a suicide note found on ...

The World Cup: soccer’s most prestigious tournament that pits the globe’s leading nations against one another on the grandest of stages. The competition’s knockout phase is generally when ...