In May 1943, floodwaters submerged the Russell Miller Milling Co. in Alton, with efforts to pump out the water underway.

On April 16, 2007, Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life. It remains the deadliest school history in US history.

By Brian Lamar, 21st TSC Public AffairsKAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – For nearly three months, between January and March, food service was paused at the ...

After years trying to moderate her party’s image, the far-right leader, convicted of embezzlement, now voices Trump-like ...

A 1868 lithograph from the Library of Congress depicts Alton's riverfront, featuring City Hall and the Chicago & Alton ...

Passover is not just historical remembrance; it’s also an annual mandate to understand that liberation from the bonds of tyranny isn’t some old story. The struggle for freedom unfolds now.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis 80 years ago this week for supporting a plot to kill Hitler. Now his legacy is ...

Col. Lloyd M. Morris, director of the Blair County-Altoona Civil Defense Council, was presented the CD’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Citation, in ceremonies at the Pentagon in Washington, ...

POLAND, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – James (Jim) Evans Ray was born on April 26, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the first ...

1682 – Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 1833 – Peterborough, NH, ...

This societal slide into the mainstreaming of violence as legitimate political speech has been gathering force and ...