8+ hour, 13+ min ago   (214+ words) BELTON, Texas (KWTX) - Volunteers in Belton cleaned the headstones of Yettie Polk’s family plot, delivering what one volunteer called an early birthday present to a woman whose story has survived for more than a century. Yettie Polk and four of…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (616+ words) Renee, whose father, entrepreneur Comer Cottrell, founded the Black hair-care company, was considering going to the hotel gym. Eric was preparing to take a train to Washington, D.C. Then came what Renee remembers as “a tremendous jolt that rattled us to…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1201+ words) Frances Hughes arrived in NYC on September 10, 2001. (Composite image: Callum Lloyd) (Source: istock.com) In 2001, New Zealand nurse Frances Hughes arrived in New York to take up the prestigious Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy. The next morning at 8:46am, a…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (134+ words) The World Trade Center south tower (L) is engulfed in flames after being struck by hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 (Reuters: Sean Adair) 25 years ago today, terrorist hijacked four planes in the United States, crashing two into the twin towers of the…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (665+ words) Lila Speciner, formerly of Long Island, tells her story of escaping the North Tower on 9/11. She walked down 88 flights of stairs and said she now lives her life with a sense of urgency. Credit: Lila Speciner Lila Speciner did not…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (719+ words) He survived 9/11 as a rescuer, a survivor AND a grieving brother. 25 years on, this is his story The only ‘Triple survivor’ has spoken out on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy that changed world history forever. September 11, 2001 is…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (194+ words) The Marblehead Museum will host "Rough Medicine: A Medical History of the Revolution," a lecture by Dr. Raymond Sullivan, at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 in its J.O.J. Frost Gallery. Sullivan, a historian, author and lecturer who has spoken extensively on the Revolution and the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1572+ words) Dorry Tompsett didn’t need to be told that her Australian husband, Stephen, had died at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. The American mum knew it in the horrendous, heart-wrenching moment that she saw the burning North…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1822+ words) ‘We’d looked at lots of houses and apartments together all over the southside one of the last times she was home, and there were two in particular she was very interested in — one in Ballsbridge and the other one was…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (527+ words) It’s the iconic black leather briefcase that still sums up the resilience of New Yorkers on 9/11. "I still use the briefcase and I see it as my message to those who committed the attacks that they won’t win," said Ed,…...