Genealogists have found that his paternal grandparents in Chicago were once accused of a charge that might seem prudish now: A century before Robert Prevost became the pope, his grandparents were ...

Ninety feet below the East River, Amtrak’s 110-year-old train tunnels are slowly filling with salty water dripping on high-voltage cables as steel is nearly corroded to dust. Above ground ...

Thousands of the faithful took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to take part in elaborate and beautiful processions by members of Catholic confraternities from around the world who gathered in ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The wrecking ball is just about hovering over Pimlico Race Course, with a complete knockdown and rebuild of the grandstand and other facilities coming. But first comes the 150th ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to ... and the esteemed university to release the 19th-century “daguerreotypes,” a precursor to modern ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to ... Lanier and the university to release the 19th-century daguerreotypes, a precursor to modern-day photographs.

"I'll hate to see it go away, but it's the way it is," Carol Marshall said. Carol, 78, and her 80-year-old husband, Bill, are the second generation to run the jewelry and gift shop. They took over ...

SAN DIEGO – — A onetime county teacher of the year at a Southern California elementary school has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for ... he was 12 years old, according to the ...

Judge Hanley Chew sentenced Ramirez to a term of life in prison with parole eligibility in 25 years, when he would be 103 years old. Karen Stitt, 15, shown in an undated photo, had recently moved ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah prison officials have inked an accord with U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement that's meant to streamline the process of deporting immigrants in the state's prison ...

Photos released Friday by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office offer a look at how officials believe 10 inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans. The photos appear to show a large, rectangular ...

A 49-year-old Montgomery County woman will spend the ... was sentenced on Tuesday to serve the next 420 months -- 35 years -- in prison, along with 10 years of parole and being required to pay ...