On Nov. 7, 1775, in the face of growing unrest in the colony, the royal governor of Virginia issued a proclamation offering ...

Today in History for Nov. 2: In 1164, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket began a six-year self-imposed exile in France. Once a close friend of England's Henry II, Becket had become an outspoken ...

The Illinois governor has been embroiled in a dispute with the Trump administration in recent months over its aggressive ...

For a good while Sunday, Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo was on a world record pace for the Chicago Marathon. While he ultimately fell short of that record, Kiplimo still walked away with the win. Kiplimo ...

Runners participate in the Chicago Marathon, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) Runners participate in the Chicago Marathon, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP ...

October 9, 2001 - At least nine tornados occurred in South Central Nebraska on Oct. 9, 2001. While most of the damage was rated F1, one of the tornados produced winds of up to 206 miles per hour. It ...

A new United Nations report finds that global plans to fight climate change will barely reduce future warming, mainly caused ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A major land conservation deal took place on this day in 1997. The Champion International Corporation announced it was selling 132,000 acres of forestland in the Northeast ...

Every day has a story. A date on the calendar carries its own echoes from the past. But what makes October 9 stand out? What events unfolded on this day across decades and centuries — in distant lands ...

In the sunset season for the concrete cathedral so often overflowed with as many as 80,000 passionate patrons, WIVB News 4 Buffalo is taking a daily look back over 400 games played in the Orchard Park ...

From 1975: Authorities remained skeptical that Thomas E. Creech had committed 42 murders, as he had recently bragged in a Wallace, Idaho, courtroom. Yet they now believed that he was linked to at ...