In 1825, a man named John Cutter started a Massachusetts company that shipped ice to South America. In return, he would bring back mahogany logs and convert them into highly desired lumber. Now, 200 ...

Abigail Lindsey worries the days of peace and quiet might be nearing an end at the rural, wooded property where she lives with her son. On the old ranch across the street, developers want to build an ...

Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “ Bleak House ,” he invented the epic, decades-spanning Jarndyce v.

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much ...

For generations, the story of human origins has been a complex tapestry, pieced together from fossil records and genetic ...

Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went ...