15+ hour, 25+ min ago  (143+ words) Highlight in history On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King's death triggered a wave of unrest in cities across the United…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (117+ words) highlight in history On March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (103+ words) Highlight in history On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez (vahl-DEEZ) ran aground on a reef in Alaskas Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil. Javascript is required for you to be able to read…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago  (231+ words) Highlight in history Chuck Norris, martial arts master and actor whose toughness became internet lore, dies at 86 On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (115+ words) Highlight in history On March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush announced in a televised address that coalition forces had begun an invasion of Iraq. (Bush would declare victory just over five weeks later in his "Mission Accomplished" speech, though the main U.S. troop…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (124+ words) Fulton Historical Society presents March program with Huisingh Famiily Foundation'Clinton Herald Huisingh Family Foundation founder and Director Dean Huisingh, pictured with conservation advocate Dave Harrison. FULTON, Ill. " The Fulton Historical Society presents its March program with Huisingh Family Foundation founder, developer,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (231+ words) Highlight in history Special Weather Statement until TUE 4:00 PM CST On Feb. 24, 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson by a vote of 126-47 following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (231+ words) FULTON, Ill. " Wild Winter Wednesday's Jan. 14 program will feature Rev. John Byker speaking about the early history of Fulton and how Gerardus "George" deBey was instrumental as an early Fulton recruiter. Byker was a principal at Unity Christian School from 1974-85 and…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (127+ words) Today in history Wind Advisory from SUN 2:00 PM CST until MON 6:00 PM CST Dense Fog Advisory until SUN 12:00 PM CST On Dec. 27, 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a shooting and bomb attack that killed at least…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (148+ words) The Masonic Scottish Rite Cathedral, at left, is smothered in flame and smoke in this view along 1st Street on Dec. 24, 1958. The darkened twisted building to the right is a portion of the Clinton Coliseum. The north end of the Modernistic…...