SEATTLE - An attractive blue and gray apartment building with views of the Space Needle saved taxpayers $4 million in one year - simply by giving hardcore homeless alcoholics a place to live. COURTNEY ...

More than 200 years ago, in January of 1811, a group of enslaved people on a plantation on the outskirts of New Orleans rose up, armed themselves and began a long march toward the city. Hundreds would ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

LAPLACE, La. — One of the largest slave revolt plantations in American history is Black-owned for the first time. Over 200 years ago, scores of slaves escaped a plantation in LaPlace and marched along ...

Traffic through LaPlace down La. 628 passes an unassuming two-story white house with a tin roof and green-accented shutters. Surrounded by trees, and with an inviting front stairway and a porch big ...

At 2:15 a.m. on December 16, 1811, residents of the frontier town of New Madrid, in what is now Missouri, were jolted from their beds by a violent earthquake. The ground heaved and pitched, hurling ...

The brick Winter Street home was built for Story in 1811, the same year that President James Madison appointed the 32-year-old lawyer to the U.S. Supreme Court, making him the youngest justice ever to ...

That is certainly the experience my husband and I had at the Bar Room recently. I figured that the only way I could write a convincing story was to sample one of the cocktails. Right? The only ...

BRECKSVILLE, Ohio -- Just a couple doors down from the 1811 Specialty Shop that opened in September 2022 is the new 1811 Children’s Shop in Brecksville Town Center. The original shop had a small baby ...

There was plenty I didn’t know about Missouri before I moved to St. Louis in 2007, but one of the things I did know, or thought I knew, was that the state was the site of the largest continental ...