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Today is the 181st day of 2023. There are 184 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1997: The Union Jack is lowered for the last time over Government House in Hong Kong as Britain prepare...

A few topics of interest were in the back of my mind, many of which I never dreamed I would actually ever get to write about.

As she swam in the Gulf of Mexico as part of a research team at Dry Tortugas National Park, Clarks Summit native Devon Fogarty spotted something underwater that made her

Archaeologists discovered the tombstone of John Greer, a laborer who died in 1861, submerged in Dry Tortugas National Park.

Archaeologists discovered a cemetery and remains of a quarantine hospital that stood on a now-submerged Florida island. Only one grave has been identified, but records show there are dozens.

Historical records indicate dozens of people may have been buried at site now in waters west of Key West, officials say

Union troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe Lincoln, before finding him in a Virginia barn and killing him on this day in history, April 26, 1865.

Ever have those nights where you try as heck to lie still and let your brain turn into mud with the goal of drifting off into some sort of deep sleep?

John Wilkes Booth was aided by a network of conspirators who concealed his escape from pursuing Union soldiers.

For nearly 200 years the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House has set on the St. Catherine plantation, which spans nearly 200 acres in Charles County. The Waldorf site, which has