"My grandmother recently told me that we are related to Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer; I freaked out because she is such an ...

Michael Shapiro is a sports reporter for Chron, covering the Astros, Rockets, Texans and every team in town. Michael is a Denver native and graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and a noted ...

He was being treated at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria ... place and cannot look up or down. He is not paralyzed, though, nor were his hips broken. "He'll walk again," Phillips vowed.

North of Pierre, South Dakota, you will find Plainview school, a rustic one-room school house that brought accessible education to the Peoria township. Such schoolhouses helped shape rural students.

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Before coming to Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, Austin Pettijohn dressed appropriately — checkered flag shorts and an Indiana Pacers jersey. For the 32-year-old from nearby ...

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Even as his fame and wealth have soared over the decades, Bruce Springsteen has retained the voice of the working class’ ...

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage of the Catholic Church will enter Iowa today on its way back to the west coast. Davenport ...

Arrested mobility, coined by author Charles T. Brown, threatens the ability for Black people to move freely in public.

Ralph Wiley spent nine years at Sports Illustrated and wrote 28 cover stories on celebrity athletes. He is the author of several books, including "Best Seat in the House," with Spike Lee, "Born to ...

Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs always talks with a smile. But on some nights over his career, there's a good chance he broke ...