With Civil War history, ghostly streets, and a tumultuous past, this semi-abandoned riverside Illinois town makes for a ...

Alton's Semaj Stampley was a young man no a mission Friday night. Mission accomplished. Stampley lit up the scoreboard with 31 points, including 20 in the first half and led the Alton to a 71-52 ...

Here’s the connection between our roads and the men for whom they’re named and why we we ended up with so many.

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...