The story of Peter Francisco may have ended in Richmond, but it began in the Azores, which is 3,000 miles away from Richmond, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Farne Islands are home to huge populations of breeding seabirds, seals and puffins - Hilary Morgan/Alamy Virginia-born George Washington ... when the estate was already 500 years old. The family’s ...

Revealing a Family’s Spy Secrets: Descendants ... a new play starring George Clooney, grossed $3.3 million in a week, breaking a record that was set by Denzel Washington’s “Othello.

Nathaniel Shuda, suburban editor for The Columbus Dispatch and news editor for the Newark Advocate, explains how and why he ...

A sneak peek at upcoming San Diego community events, including street fairs, festivals, concerts, performances, art shows and ...

Once the dog trees its ... high-energy family dogs). They make great companions in the outdoors, on hikes or bike rides. American English coonhounds are believed to have a presidential origin story.

While no one dog breed should get more love than another, human nature can lead us to play favorites. With 201 registered ...

Throughout follow-up investigations, authorities said Washington’s family believed ... In 1922, George Tompkins , 19, was found hanging from a tree in Indiana. Although concerning details ...

Was there a better way to spend the past decade than on a maddening, deadly, brain-scrambling search for gold hidden ...

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

When he’s not busy ending wars, deporting illegal aliens, overhauling the federal bureaucracy and drastically reordering ...

These people and their descendants are known as “maroons ... A historical marker indicates where slaves dug a large ditch for George Washington in 1763 to assist with draining the swamp ...