Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved people statewide.

Among the 15 new principals named for Knox County Schools are some longtime district employees and some fresh faces who are ...

The budget diverts $387 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a program made permanent by the Great American ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al ...

Florence County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Lake City man for desecration of human remains. He had been reported ...

Florence School District 1 approved a new budget that includes a tax increase that affects business owners and residents who ...