On May 10, 1869, on a small stretch of northern Utah, our nation was forever changed when the final ties and spikes of the transcontinental railroad were installed. By the time the 17-karat gold spike ...

Despite initial complaints by players that the Island Green and other aspects of the course were just a bit whacky or ...

Florida, with its high concentration of wealth, no state income tax, pro-business policies and balmy weather, has drawn an ...

Here are Stars and Stripes staffers’ thoughts on the 10 best picture Oscar nominees this year -- and one film that perhaps ...

Gov. Josh Green is negotiating an agreement with a Japanese rail conglomerate to work on transit-oriented development along ...

At QuiltCon, the medium's radical history took center stage, with works that commented on censorship and corruption and called for change.

I'll be somewhere else." Blake Griffin, who has been the consensus No. 1 NBA draft pick for months, is making his second stint with Matrisciano. He chose to come here, as did his brother, to go ...

By 1810, the American experiment was well underway. It was a time when the Founding Fathers were not just still alive, but actively involved in politics. The original 13 colonies had already grown to ...

Tom Vernon wrecked at least two trains to rob passengers, used a number of aliases during his lifetime and spun tall tales so ...

Many of the Lodi Police Department's cold cases concern the murders of local residents, but an incident that is now 25 years old involves an Elk Grove man. On June 26, 2005, 43-year-old ...

Eighty years ago in Harlem, Jimmie McDaniel and Don Budge played a match at the Cosmopolitan Club. But while McDaniel helped open doors for the sport, he found they were still closed to him.

Some said Pueblo, after the old trading post built of adobe and stubbornness decades before my time. Others said nothing at all. It was where trails met and men took stock of their loads. But this ...