John Thornton

WASHINGTON PARK, Ill. (AP) — A teenage Missouri girl reported missing more than two years ago told police she escaped a home in a decaying, crime-ridden Illinois village where she was held captive and subjected to sexual assaults that resulted in...

25 years ago Unpredictable gas prices went up by 1 or 2 cents Friday at many area gas stations but dropped by 3 cents at one station. Prices at Petoskey Imperial dropped from 94.9 cents to 91.9 cents for both regular and unleaded this past weekend....

"I'm not sick; I'm only dying," a friend told Dr. William Lamers Jr. The man had inoperable cancer and wanted to go home to die, but his doctor wouldn't let him out of the hospital. It was the early 1970s, when most people with incurable illnesses died...

Suzanne and Samuel Hulthage, of Columbia, announce the birth of their daughter, Chloe Annika Sophia Hulthage, on Aug. 31, 2011, at 9 a.m. She weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces. Her sister is Gabby. Her grandparents are Mary Beth Budd and Joseph Raksis, of...

50 years ago — Eugene Kruskie of Fochtman’s Motor Company ended the 1961 Petoskey Softball League regular season with a .492 batting average, while Jack Schloser and Charlie Paige followed. The team batting average title went to Bare...

An influential consulting firm is advising that shareholders vote News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and 12 others off the board of directors of the media giant at its annual meeting later this month. Calling the phone-hacking scandal that led News......

Reporting from Orange, Va. On the 19th page of the diary, I saw it. "Spence Mozingo came to . . . get boards for covering the Tob[acco] house." I clasped the back of my head in disbelief. Francis Taylor, a close cousin of James Madison, had kept a...

Famous names, many of them Asian, show up for the third state dinner hosted at the White House by the Obamas....

York, England This walled city, almost 2,000 years old, has had more than its share of conquerors. The Romans established a stronghold here in AD 71. The Saxons, Danish Vikings and Normans claimed it as their own too, drawn by its strategic location on...