Paulo Brandao Paulo Brandao died May 3, 2025. He was 52. Born in Portugal he lived in Newark before moving to Elizabeth.

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting others should be ...

Forty years after he died, a group of descendants and others began to reassemble the scattered puzzle pieces of Tom Lee’s ...

The series of turns in the Mississippi River just south of Memphis has claimed boats before and was known for strong currents ...

It was a momentous time at Estes Park in Keokuk on Saturday, as many gathered there for the dedication ceremony of the ...

Thursday will be 100 years to the day that Memphian Tom Lee saved 32 people from a sinking boat in the Mississippi River.

The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...

Many of the actors who have brought to life our most beloved characters, those with inspiring storylines that have remained ...

Several southern states are observing a holiday commemorating the Confederacy a day after President Donald Trump announced ...

President Trump said he's bringing back Columbus Day. Biden called it Indigenous Peoples Day. Does Mississippi celebrate a ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...