Union Pacific Railroad celebrated its 163rd birthday today in the hometown of its famed founder – President Abraham Lincoln – with the help of numerous dignitaries and its newest commemorative ...

Union Pacific's No. 1616 Lincoln Locomotive, with the Illinois State Capitol in the background. The event was sponsored by Union Pacific, the Lincoln Presidential Foundation, Looking for Lincoln ...

Thursday’s meeting saw dozens of parents, students and concerned community members speak out against Heffernan’s appointment ...

Scheidies: "History is simply your story, my story. It is the story of the famous, the infamous and the neighbor next door." ...

Richmond Heights announced it will be hosting its Juneteenth celebration at Greenwood Farm park, 264 Richmond Road, on June 14. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, which was the date enslaved ...

As Senate Republicans turn the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed by one vote in the House, into a major taffy pull, two questions hover in the background. Where is our country headed? Will Republicans ...

Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in 1865, when Galveston, Texas, received news that the Civil War ...

Local educators, students, parents and community members will join the fifth annual Teach Truth Day of Action at 11 a.m.

It’s the commemoration of the day in 1865 when slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom — which was nearly three years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Donald Trump would be elated that his worst painting ever has been replaced at the Colorado state capital now. The painting ...

Despite Juneteenth’s status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled, as ...

Yet it’s a commemoration going back 160 years. It marks the end of the last pocket of slavery, when Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, on June 19, 1865, announcing that some 250,000 ...