New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard were once connected by the ferry Schamonchi. Now it is slowly sinking in a New York creek ...

The 76-mile-long Niobrara National Scenic River, near Valentine, Nebraska, was designated the quietest trail in the U.S. by ...

CROWN POINT — A Lake Superior Court judge disciplined recently by the Indiana Supreme Court for sexually harassing court employees for most of his 18-year judicial tenure should no longer serve ...

Similarly, a dust storm on I-55 between St. Louis and Springfield, Illinois, in 2023 led to a fatal pileup involving dozens of vehicles. In 1991, 17 people died in an accident involving more than ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- There was a new development Thursday in the Sonya Massey case. A judge will hear arguments to move the murder trial of a former sheriff's deputy to a different county.