COLUMBUS, Ohio — James Jackson, the first Black police chief for the City of Columbus and the longest-serving police chief in the city's history, has died. He was 91. The former Columbus police chief ...

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The New York Times is on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York Times ...

It’s not shocking to see cases of the flu jump up during respiratory virus season. But there’s been enough talk about the so-called super flu swirling around that it’s fair to wonder what’s going on ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

James Gunn and director Craig Gillespie recently opened up about the upcoming Supergirl, and how they believe it’s the first “anti-hero” movie in the DCU. What did James Gunn and Craig Gillespie say ...

Pop-up stores can do a lot for a retailer, including test a geographic region, spur sales and experiment with new concepts. For QVC’s holiday pop-up house in New York City, the main goal was to ...

Harford County schools chose to use their first snow day on Tuesday, with a forecast of a wintry mix of snow, rain, and ice. Initially, the district announced a two-hour delay, much like most other ...

The Board of Supervisors’ proposal to make Kern a charter county raises two questions: Why, after more than 150 years as a “general law” county, do supervisors suddenly want to change Kern’s ...

It seems as though the Presidential Turkey Pardon ceremony has existed since the Pilgrims because it has become such a well-known tradition. But, the event didn't become official until 1989. It's one ...

Back in the Windows XP days, when the only search functionality was a cartoon dog in the sidebar of Windows Explorer (not a joke), Google released Google Desktop. If you installed the application, you ...