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David Sparks was 16 when he was picked up for violating a Philadelphia curfew for teens. He was later wrongfully convicted in a deadly shooting.

As police procedurals go, “Annika” is one of the better offerings from Masterpiece Mystery. That’s thanks to the British actress Nicola Walker, whose credits include everything from “Last Tango in Halifax” to “The Split” to “Unforgotten.” No matter the role, she brings a restless wit to her characters. As Detective Inspector Annika Strandhed, she’s the head of Glasgow’s Marine Homicide Unit, a ...

The Perry Village PITCH In program recently completed its second project of 2023.

A team of volunteers, has restored and maintained the USS Slater, but an aging crew and recruitment challenges raises concerns for the museums future.

<p>Matt Garcia, William Deverell and others share personal reflections on their personal and professional intersections with the mold-breaking historian and activist. </p>

Art advocates in Schenectady chalk up a lack of murals to city-mandated fees and the lack...

The Scottish-set series is available on PBS Passport and PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.

Jun. 11—Before Montour pitcher Dylan Mathiesen took the mound for the 12th time this season, his coaches wondered if the right-hander might be tiring a little. His previous outing came in the WPIAL finals, and Mathiesen's stuff that day maybe wasn't his sharpest. But here in the PIAA playoffs, two wins away from the state finals, the junior proved he's not done yet. And clearly, neither were ...

Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by himself. Two years later he traveled to England to lecture on the abolition circuit, as Frederick Douglass had done. While he was there, the U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), making it impossible for Brown to return to the United States without either facing reenslavement or purchasing his freedom from the man who claimed to own him. Brown refused to do either. He was trapped in England, but he prospered there, pub...

While I was reminiscing about memories from my past, I recall one that related to my mother and her family in pre- and post-war Poland. My mother left her beloved