New artist-run quilt studio opening in Gee’s Bend is ‘an authentic Alabama cultural experience’

Pa. park joins national network of protected old-growth forests

The park’s mixed hardwood forest features red and white oak, sugar maple, black cherry, shagbark hickory, red maple and American beech.

Tigers players watched friend reach MLB dream amid devastating family tragedy

Eliézer Alfonzo spent nine seasons in the Tigers system before making his MLB debut with the Dodgers amid a family tragedy in Venezuela.

Iconic image of Ruby Bridges got this Oregon coordinator fired — a judge delivered a powerful rebuke

A federal judge denied qualified immunity to the government director who fired Beth Schmidt for wearing an image of a 1964 Norman Rockwell painting to work.

What happened when a holiday patrol met a whale off New Jersey

A New Jersey fire rescue boat sank after a breaching whale struck the vessel while firefighters were returning from a July 4 marine security assignment in New York Harbor.

2 Portland police officers injured, taken to hospital after arrest struggle

Officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries during an early morning struggle with a trespassing suspect, Portland Police said Tuesday.