The modern era of mass shootings began here on a searing summer day in 1966. Just before noon, from high atop the University of Texas Tower, an ex-Marine sharpshooter named Charles Whitman leveled ...

WALLA WALLA — The FBI is investigating the theft of a ceremonial tomahawk believed to be the weapon used to kill Dr. Marcus Whitman, a 19th-century missionary who was a leader of Northwest ...

Whitman College plans to adopt a new mascot, ... Whitman is a private liberal arts college in Walla Walla named after Northwest missionary Marcus Whitman. It became a four-year school in 1883.