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"A spectacle reserved only for the earth among the planets of our universe – an eclipse of the sun, the master show of the heavens."

New details were released this week after an Alsip man was arrested in connection to a mass shooting that occurred in Bronzeville nearly seven years ago.

Willie Williams was sentenced to life in prison for two 1975 robbery-shootings. A review found the victim who identified him was hypnotized by police.

The Witset First Nation, previously known as Moricetown, is the home base of the Moricetown Cubs, originally founded as a baseball team in 1923. The team is celebrating its centennial with a tournament this weekend.

The La Jolla show honors the rarest tree in North America as well as local conservation efforts to protect the reserve from development and climate change

The Torrey pine is a rarity in the tree world, and an upcoming La Jolla Historical Society exhibit looks at the people who stood by it and rallied to preserve the trees and the land they stand on.

On October 14, 2022, the Death Penalty Information Center released Deeply Rooted: How Racial History Informs Oklahoma’s Death Penalty , a report placing…

The End Is Coming Says Dr. Huson The Earth Might Be Smashed Into Smithereens By The Rapidly Approaching Comets, was a headline in the Nov. 7, 1911 Sheridan Daily Enterprise. The Daily Enterprise this morning was in receipt of a communication from Dr. Huson of Clearmont,in which a prediction is made

Published February 07. 2021 10:18AM  Carol Sommer Hiram “Harry” Bingham IV spent from 1937 to 1941 in France in the U.S. diplomatic corps, issuing visas. Many of his clients were refugees seeking safety in America from Nazi persecution. Some of them were famous, some weren’t, but they all had one thing in common: they were fleeing death. His work, much of it in defiance of government orders, was so stressful that, although he was a young man, the experience turned his hair completely whi...

Published January 10. 2021 12:01AM  Carol Sommer The Mitchell Isolation Hospital on Colman Street in New London was completed in 1914, thanks to a $100,000 donation by Annie Olivia Tiffany Mitchell. Today the hospital is gone, but its former nurses’ dormitory still stands on Walden Street. In the 19th century, healthcare, such as it was, was provided in almshouses and private homes, but at the start of the 20th century, hospitals commonly filled that role. New London had several. They were b...