From 1948 to 1952, the White House underwent a complete gut renovation. The building had numerous structural issues that made it unsafe for the Trumans to live in. Archived photos show the massive ...

How unsophisticated was the FBI when dealing with the mob in the early 1960s? So unsophisticated that the bureau referred to the La Cosa Nostra as the La Causa Nostra, according to Jerry Capeci, the ...

The American ranch house has for decades been dismissed as the real estate equivalent of the TV dinner—mass-produced, bland and outmoded. Recently, though, home buyers are warming to the humble legacy ...

THE signs were clear. The Bangladesh Bank heist. The shootings and burning of Resort World casino. The prevalence of sex trafficking cases and prostitution in Pampanga includes the sexual exploitation ...

Semi trucks, though they get little recognition, or even respect, for that matter, are holding America together. These rigs, often called 18-wheelers, can last millions of miles, and are concentrated ...

A priceless address book from the Titanic has been stolen from an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The black, leather-bound book had been secured in a glass display case. One ...

On this day in 1990, Queensbridge native and original Juice Crew member Percy Chapman, better known to the culture as Intelligent Hoodlum, released his self-titled debut album Intelligent Hoodlum via ...

James Stewart looks through his camera in a scene form the film 'Rear Window', 1954. ( The 1950s were the last full decade of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hollywood filmmakers weren’t the only ones ...

Rudolph Wendelin, Forest Service artist in Washington on June 17, 1950, who designed the raindrop character for the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s cartoon movie “The Adventures of Junior Raindrop,” ...

Joyce Harper is an ex-Army nurse who enters police work with the L.A. Police Department, when her friend Ruby gets involved with a petty crook, Max Taylor refuses to listen to Joyce's warnings, and ...