The facts and details in this story come from “Benjamin Thornton: The Fly Detective of Indianapolis,” written by Patrick Pearsey, unless otherwise noted. Benjamin Thornton stood with his back ...

The facts and details in this story come from "Benjamin Thornton: The Fly Detective of Indianapolis," written by Patrick Pearsey, unless otherwise noted. Benjamin Thornton stood with his back ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Homer Martz poses at his well with a copy of the U.S. Constitution in July 2018. Martz, a Vietnam veteran, said his right to due process was violated when a pipeline company came through and ...

Love and marriage, Frank Sinatra sang, go together like a horse and carriage — and as someone who was married four times, Sinatra was a bit of an expert on the subject. The mode of ...

NEW ORLEANS, Jan 5 (Reuters - Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the "separate but equal" ...

The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Homer ... history. Plessy was arrested in 1892 after he purchased a ticket and refused to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans. In 1896, the top ...