IBM has announced that it signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows 95 operating system. IBM was almost the last of the top PC-makers to sign such an agreement. Jim Ehlers, of Rochester, ...

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The schooner Inca, carrying redwood lumber from Humboldt County, was dismasted about 800 miles off the coast of New Zealand in December 1920. According to the Dec. 17, 1920 Humboldt Times newspaper, ...

“A tremendous amount of grammar school building is going on in Asheville,” the Asheville Citizen reported on Sept. 10, 1922. Over half a million dollars was being put into schools at North Asheville ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.