On this day 85 years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial in a ceremony.

Alton High's Redbirds football team achieved a perfect 10-0 season in 1970, winning the Southwestern Illinois Conference ...

On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began ...

Today is the 320th day of 2024. There are 46 days left in the year.

Using brushes and rags, Brinley Jackson, Zaelyn Phillips, Maddox Lockwood and Kaylynn Henretty cleaned the tombstone of ...

Using brushes and rags, Brinley Jackson, Zaelyn Phillips, Maddox Lockwood and Kaylynn Henretty cleaned the tombstone of ...

When they met as graduate students at Rutgers pursuing master’s degrees, Myra says, Saad’s kindness and open nature made her ...

Columnist Terry Cowgill says president-elect Donald Trump's early nominees for his second administration were unremarkable.

Veterans Day had its origin in 1918 at the end of World War I, a conflict that was at that time so horrendous that it was ...

For the first time since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, D.C.'s mayor spoke publicly about what a second Trump ...

The field for the Virginia High School League football playoffs is set. The VHSL announced the postseason brackets for all ...

The colorful yarn-covored sculpture of what appears to be a carp that has landed over a fireplace mantel in the historic Paddock Mansion is definitely a fish out of water. It's just part of the ...