Jefferson Davis

On Saturday, June 16, the  Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) hosts the Hampton Environmental Summit  2012 at the Northampton Community Center. The theme of this year's free event,  taking place 10-3 p.m., is "Keeping the Crab in Crab Town." The ...

According to screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (who also wrote the original novel, as well as “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”), his inspiration for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” was seeing a bookstore display for the “...

Jacob A. Trumbo of Garrard County served as a bodyguard for Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, during his time in the Civil War. He recalled service in the Confederate army in a Garrard County newspaper article four months before his death...

A letter to a Civil War soldier from his family in Somerset was found during the renovation of a historic dormitory at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg. Pvt. George Dull of Company D, 142nd Pennsylvania, received a letter dated July 3,...

Best Buy announced last month that it would be closing 50 of its retail stores in the U.S. but stopped short of identifying them. The company has now revealed the specific locations slated for closure — one of which is in Western Washington. The...

The year is 2011, not 1861 To the editor: Imagine a place where public schools, if they exist, are under-funded, where the wealthy send their children to private schools and universities so that they might retain their families' hold on wealth,...

The year is 2011, not 1861 To the editor: Imagine a place where public schools, if they exist, are under-funded, where the wealthy send their children to private schools and universities so that they might retain their families’ hold on wealth,...

On a recent steamy Saturday evening, 11 members of Deborah Rae Wright's book club — black, white, Indian and Jewish women — gathered in her meticulously restored Craftsman home on the rundown west side of the Mississippi capital. The topic was...

The Shore Leave 32 science fiction convention returns Friday-Sunday, July 8-10, at the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn. This event will include workshops, a film festival, a masquerade contest, an art show and a host of dealers selling memorabilia. There will...

The Continuing Education and Community Services Division at Hagerstown Community College is offering a half-day seminar titled "Civil War 1861: The Country Disintegrates," Saturday, Oct. 15, from 8 a.m. to noon in the Career Programs Building on HCC's...

The funeral for the nephew of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings has been scheduled for Saturday in Baltimore, the congressman's office said Tuesday. Christopher Cummings, 20, who had just completed his junior year at Old Dominion University, was shot to death in...