Famed CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92, known as 'most trusted man in America' ...more

July 17, 2009

I can just see it now, an extravaganza President Barack Obama, accompanied by Mrs. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barney Frank in the opening chorus of "Hail, hail, the gang's all here," special arrangement by the Democratic Congress singing "Happy days are here again!" ...more

January 29, 2009

Slow Down For Cranes We live off Cross Creek Boulevard between Bruce B. Downs Blvd. and Morris Bridge Road. In the last month we have seen three dead sandhill cranes along the road. ...more

January 17, 2009

How sour is the public mood? An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found about half of people believe 2008 was one of the worst years in American history. At times, Abraham Lincoln's lament has seemed apt, "We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read." ...more

January 3, 2009

Mexican officials are trying to persuade Americans to visit Ciudad Juarez, touting the city in a new billboard campaign as a "land of encounters." But on the U.S. side of the border, that sounds like a cruel joke. ...more

October 16, 2008

Michael E. Long loved history and had a fondness for teaching his students about the Civil War and the Lincoln assassination. ...more

September 17, 2008

Assailants threw two grenades into a crowd of Independence Day revelers, killing seven and injuring more than 100 in a brazen attack that escalates the war between Mexico's army and drug gangs. ...more

September 17, 2008

Greg Clifton was born 45 minutes before John Lennon was pronounced dead. ...more

August 20, 2008

Raul Agudelo was a fearsome commander of Colombia's largest rebel group, carrying out killings, kidnappings and extortions for more than 20 years. It was the only life he really knew. But he says that going back to that life is now the last thing he wants to do. ...more

August 3, 2008

When he was running for president, Mike Huckabee had a reputation as a jokester on the campaign trail, especially during the Republican debates. A joke he told last week before about 6,000 members of the National Rifle Association, however, was not funny at all. Indeed, the quip was borderline incendiary. ...more

May 21, 2008