In 1850, a number of free Black abolitionists began settling in the territorial city of St. Paul and helped with the freedom movement.

The U.S. Postal Service is turning 250. Saturday’s anniversary comes as the agency faces financial challenges. The postal service was established in 1775, when the Second Continental ...

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of ...

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily -- undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night -- turns 250 on Saturday.

Two Conrail railroad workers rescued a man who nearly drowned in Piscataway, New Jersey during Monday night's flash floods, saving his life.

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Amid torrential storms Monday night, two railroad workers saved a man who nearly drowned in the floodwaters in Piscataway, New Jersey. Paul Clawges and Barry Sanders, a Conrail track specialist ...

One out of every 117 railroad workers died on the job in 1889. “Railway work was so dangerous,” according to web site, “that an entire medical specialty developed to deal with it.

The Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden has acquired a Western Pacific caboose while restoration of the Merci Boxcar, a post-World War II gift from France, is complete.

Three workers remain trapped at a gold and copper mine in Western Canada on Thursday as a remote-controlled scoop began removing debris from rockfalls to gain access to them, a mine company said ...

Brothers William and Frank Watson, the researchers who first uncovered Duffy’s Cut, believe they have discovered a second mass grave of Irish railroad workers buried in Malvern in 1832, writes ...