LI seniors offer advice on adversity, reveal what they'd tell their younger selves and share their happiest memories ...

Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers to become the only woman to compete for the United States in long jump at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, has died.

An antidiscrimination lawsuit on her behalf helped lead to one of the first multiracial track teams in the Midwest.

Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women's track team, was inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

Ruth Small always knew she was meant to write a book. That realization first struck her in fifth grade at Randolph Elementary ...

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Unfavourable ocean and weather conditions thwarting rescue efforts are forecast to persist for days and the surviving animals ...

Kevyn Major Howard, known for appearing as Rafterman in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket, has died ...

W.Va., have just taken a test on whether they can do their jobs as United States senators. The test was the vote ...

Claudia Jayne Sturm, a cherished and devoted mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, passed away peacefully at her home in ...

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The local LGBTQ community was dealt a devastating blow this week when it was announced that Shelley Brothers, co-owner of ...