NEW ORLEANS — Some students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary can now see things a bit more clearly.On Thursday morning, 150 students received free eye exams and glasses as part of a collaboration ...

Benjamin Franklin wasn't wrong. Not only is it dangerous to operate heavy machinery like printing presses under the influence, but beer consumption should be limited to two 12-ounce glasses per day.

Difficult as it is to believe today, Ben Franklin — old, pudgy, balding, glasses-wearing Ben — was a babe magnet well into old age. As ambassador to France, ...

Ben Franklin, known by many young people as the face of the 100-dollar bill, was an American icon of his day and one of Charlie Munger’s role models. Undoubtedly, the remarkable polymath who ...

Close-up of a $100 bill featuring the face of Benjamin Franklin. Researchers have uncovered previously unknown money-printing innovations developed by Franklin.

It’s now Benjamin Franklin House Museum, opened in 2006. In 1998, during construction to conserve the building, workers uncovered a cache of some 1,200 human and animal bones in the basement.

There will soon be just one Ben Franklin store left in Iowa. Fifty years ago, there were more than 100 Ben Franklin stores in the state, but there’s a store closing sale underway at the Ben ...

On average, prescription glasses can cost between $200 to $300 for frames and lens — without insurance, according to statistics from VSP Vision Care, an optometry insurance provider.

When we heard that Michael Douglas was going to play Benjamin Franklin in a new Apple TV+ series, we had our doubts. But after watching the first episode of the series, which depicts the 70-year ...

Ben Franklin Elementary kids get free eye exams and glasses ...