Latitude could be found by looking at the Sun and the stars. But longitude was much trickier, and many sailors ended up dead ...

OSLO, NORWAY—Science in Norway reports that a shipwreck carrying a cargo of eighteenth-century Chinese porcelain has been discovered nearly intact under nearly 2,000 feet of water off the coast of ...

The Mississippi River flows 2,350 miles, borders 10 states and drains an area stretching from New York to Wyoming ...

Retail always attracts fraud, but what's happening now differs in scale and sophistication: 69% of retailers experienced ...

1. Local Market Sponsors. This local market Home Improvement Month (“Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by WGN-TV (the “Station”), 2501 W. Bradley Place, Chicago, IL 60618, and Home Comfort, 500 E. Touhy Ave, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration has confirmed two workers have died on the job in separate incidents in the last week. A roofer in Marshall died ...

You wouldn’t know it from the hordes of tourists, cotton candy stands or iconic Ferris wheel, but the Santa Monica Pier wasn’t always a scene of such merriment. In the 117 years since opening day, the ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Cranston firefighters have exceeded their overtime budgets by an average of $1.5 million annually over the past decade, a longstanding pattern that is helping fuel the city’s ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Memphis, Tennessee, is known around the world as the home of the blues. It helped create soul. It invented rock ’n’ roll. And decades later, the city’s influence is still ...

Sponsors. This sweepstakes (“Our Mom’s the Best Photo Contest”) is sponsored by WGN-TV, 2501 W Bradley Pl Chicago, IL 60618 and Rogers and Hollands, P.O. Box 879, Matteson, IL 60443 (collectively, the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo–Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. The Springfield Cardinals are back in town and opened up a six-game home stand Wednesday afternoon against Corpus Christi ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A man is in custody in connection with the apartment fire in Duson that claimed the life of a 9-year-old girl, and new facts are coming to light of his violent past.