In 1938, street work was under way in Alton, including this project to widen and spruce up the intersection of Fourth and East Broadway. The project was under the Public Works Administration, a ...

Trey Anastasio Band Announce First Live Performance Since September 2024 Fans of Trey Anastasio Band rejoice. The group has announced a concert on August 1, 2025, at The Bellwether in Los Angeles.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaragua's first elected female president, died on Saturday at 95. She took power in 1990 after beating Daniel Ortega in a surprise election, uniting opposition ...

He penned editorials denouncing the abuses of the regime of Gen. Anastasio Somoza, whose family had ruled Nicaragua for four decades, and was gunned down on a Managua street in January 1978.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro received the presidential sash from Nicaragua’s outgoing leader, Daniel Ortega, in April 1990. Her election stunned many people in Nicaragua and around the world ...

Chamorro put her country on the path to democracy in the difficult years following the Sandinista revolution of 1979, which had toppled the US-backed right-wing regime of Anastasio Somoza.

The 1984 La Penca bombing, where a deadly attack on rebel leader Edén Pastora killed journalists and sparked a decades-long mystery.

José R. Somoza (1913-2004) was a Nicaraguan military officer. He was a son of Nicaraguan military dictator Anastasio Somoza García, and brother of Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Anastasio ...

Trey Anastasio continued his solo acoustic tour over the weekend with three performances in the Southeast. After reaching his southernmost stand on Friday, March 28, with a show at Clearwater, Fla ...

Photo Credit: Bill Kelly On Saturday, March 22, Trey Anastasio touched down in Birmingham, Ala. for a solo acoustic performance at the Alabama Theatre.

Last night, Trey Anastasio’s acoustic tour continued at New Orleans’ Saenger Theatre. The largely solo performance marked Anastasio’s first Big Easy appearance since Phish’s 2014 spot at ...

In the late 1970s, Nicaragua was in the midst of a violent revolution when the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Garcia.