On April 12, 1861, the Civil War erupted with the firing on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy. Confederate Vice President ...

The men of the 47th had hoped for a stop at Forts Taylor and Jefferson, acting as prisoner-of-war camps ... hot and the column marched along until Fort Stevens was reached, when, to the great ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Thomas Jefferson, the former president ... It was to be a coordinated land-sea operation. Once the fort had been silenced, British strategists predicted, the redcoats would take and plunder ...

Conquering present-day Ontario, Thomas Jefferson predicted ... when Indians attacked 65 wounded American prisoners, in apparent reprisal for atrocities the Kentuckians had committed against ...

On April 13, 1997, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, ...

Three correctional officers charged in the death of Jefferson City correctional inmate, Othel Moore, will be in a Cole County courtroom Monday at 9 a.m. in front of Judge Green for a plea/trial ...

She admitted to smuggling heroin into the jail and giving the drugs to her fellow inmate in exchange for food and phone time, ...

Fort Smith officials deny discussions about building a proposed 3,000-bed state prison in the city or at Chaffee Crossing. City officials confirmed their participation in meetings regarding water ...

FORT SMITH -- An Arkansas senator's proposal suggests relocating the state's planned 3,000-bed prison from land in Franklin County to acreage on Fort Chaffee less than 30 miles to the southwest.