1+ day, 29+ min ago   (685+ words) The famed pinniped is believed to be the only seal daredevil to survive a plunge over the Canadian falls, Brian Narhi writes. Jeff the seal escaped from Marineland and was spotted by teenager Tommy Haines on the edge of the…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (116+ words) Asbury Park Press Sept. 13, 2001, the ‘aftershock:’ From the Asbury Park Press archives Thursday, September 13, 2001 — 25 Years Ago Just two days after the catastrophic events of Sept. 11, the full scope of the tragedy was only starting to unfold. While national leaders grappled…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1102+ words) When one thinks of a city with a "Canal District," places like Venice, Amsterdam and Bruges come to mind. But in the 1830s, Worcester would have made that list, as a series of waterways connected Massachusetts and Rhode Island's growing commerce....

1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (546+ words) The wreckage is surveyed in 1951. (Image: CT.) A young Llanidloes farm worker who had left the RAF only a week earlier became an unlikely hero when he pulled a stranded airman from a flooded river after a Wellington bomber crashed…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (568+ words) You are probably familiar with the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Such was the course of life of the Marquis de Lafayette. As Americans, we are likely not to understand that the French nobleman's life involved far…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago   (223+ words) Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, Vincent and Rosemarie Borst of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, are reflecting on the narrow margins that separated survival from catastrophe at the World Trade Center. Both were Port Authority employees that morning: Vincent was working on…...

5+ hour, 14+ min ago   (824+ words) When we think of an archive, we often picture filing cabinets, rows of shelves and dusty tomes. So when a visitor to Govanhill Baths wrote “Tom Roberts 1985” on the back of a door, they could never have expected their graffiti…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (214+ words) A derelict Martello tower built in 1806 to defend Britain against a possible Napoleonic invasion has been transformed into a luxury holiday home in Dymchurch, Kent. Property developer Gary Mayatt bought Martello Tower 25 for £220,000 and spent £800,000 over five years renovating the…...

5+ hour, 35+ min ago   (303+ words) National recognition is coming to the Hammond Cemetery on River Road in Mattapoisett. The cemetery will be designated a Revolutionary War Burial Site at a ceremony beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 19. Raymond Hanks, an organizer who chairs Mattapoisett's Cemetery Advisory…...

8+ hour, 44+ min ago   (1824+ words) From the files of Sept. 12, 1935 City Purchases New Fire Truck The city of Cullman completed the deal for a new modern fire truck. After severe tests which proved the truck satisfactory last Monday the deal was closed. The new truck…...