2023 — Gymnast Simone Biles (26) wins her record 8th U.S. Championship in San Jose, California. Aug. 28 1886 — Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 to win his sixth straight U ...

Today in History for Sept. 5: In 1534, Jacques Cartier arrived in France after his first voyage to Canada. In 1638, Louis XIV of France was born. In 1698, Peter the Great of Russia imposed a tax on ...

Locarno Film Festival’s yearly, rotating retrospective is almost always the best and surest ticket in town. Take last year’s ...

Good morning. Gusty today thanks to Hurricane Erin’s journey off in the Atlantic, with a high of about 76. A low near 64 ...

Mediapolis history will be on view at Town and Country Days in Cartwright Park, as the Des Moines County town celebrates its ...

Numismatic experts say counterfeit coins are rampant. The US Mint says its new laser technology is a means to deter forgeries ...

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday and the dollar and Treasury yields rose, as solid factory data cast a bit more doubt on the ...

VanEck has filed with the SEC to create a staked Solana ETF that would track JitoSOL, a token representing staked SOL and its ...

Sydney has been plunged into traffic chaos after a five-vehicle crash on the Anzac Bridge, with cars backed all the way up to ...

A quarter-mile is not a lot of ground to cover by foot in a short time, but it proved not to be so easy because of the ...