On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case ...

April 1789: A major smallpox epidemic breaks out. In April 1789, 15 months after the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay, a major smallpox epidemic broke out. The Europeans who’d arrived in 1788 had ...

The study addresses a critical question in public health: could mpox evolve to become efficiently airborne like its viral relative, smallpox? While close physical contact remains the dominant mode ...

A 1868 lithograph from the Library of Congress depicts Alton's riverfront, featuring City Hall and the Chicago & Alton ...

ALTON — The Alton Police Department is seeking the public’s help after two people, including a 4-year-old child, were shot Tuesday evening on Homer Adams Parkway. Police said that the ...

Enterprise browser startup Island just raised a sizable funding round — one that bumps up its valuation significantly, and less than one year after its last fundraise. Dallas-based Island raised ...

A family that got rich selling baking powder is selling a private island priced at $35 million. The Ziegler family has owned Hay Island, just off the Connecticut coast, for over a century.

New Yorkers turned out in force for Saturday’s reopening of Coney Island’s Luna Park, with some arriving long before any of the amusement park’s workers. Bensonhurst’s David Zubin ...

A year after getting loose on Kangaroo Island, Valerie is still out there. By Victor Mather A dachshund lost in Australia is still alive after more than a year, and still apparently wearing her ...

Alton Brown, American television personality, food show presenter, and food scientist, joins Lisa Dent to discuss his touring show, Alton Brown Live: Last Bite. Brown explains why this is his last ...