On Dec. 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified as Georgia became the 27th state to endorse it. In 1907, at least 361 men and boys died in a coal mine ...

Harry Fessler of Godfrey, Illinois, pauses on a rugged patch of ground in Okinawa, Japan, his young face catching the harsh sun. Behind him stands a simple monument, a tribute to the late, revered war ...

A home was evacuated early Friday morning after a tree fell onto its roof in Penn Hills. In a post from the Penn Hills ...

A Duquesne man is facing charges after police said a juvenile was hospitalized for ingesting narcotics. Allegheny County ...

Michael Jordan’s attorneys were under pressure Tuesday to complete their presentation in the federal antitrust trial against ...

NASCAR Hall of Fame team owner Richard Childress could be called to the witness stand as early as Monday in the federal ...

Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina and his two children died after a small private jet crashed shortly after takeoff in North Carolina on Thursday, in a disaster which killed a total ...

Scott MacFarlane is CBS News' Justice correspondent. He has covered Washington for two decades, earning 20 Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards. His reporting has resulted directly in the passage of five ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Friday that no West Virginia National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., have requested to return home in the wake of Wednesday's shooting of two West Virginia ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Kanawha County woman convicted of first-degree murder could spend the rest of her life behind bars following her sentencing. Virginia Smith received a life sentence with mercy ...

NASCAR Chairman Jim France is continuing testimony Wednesday as the final witness called by Michael Jordan’s side in the federal antitrust lawsuit lodged against the top ...