Bryan Jennings, convicted of the 1979 rape and murder of a six-year-old girl, is scheduled for execution on November 13. His attorneys have filed for a stay of execution, arguing his death warrant was ...

2007, IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY. DEPUTIES SAY NO CHARGES WILL BE FILED AFTER A DEADLY SHOOTING. DEPUTIES SAY IT HAPPENED ON CRESTON DRIVE IN THE BEAR CREEK COMMUNITY LAST NIGHT. WHEN DEPUTIES ARRIVED, THEY ...

TO LEARN MORE. ALSO BREAKING THIS MORNING OUT OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY, DEPUTIES SAY A MAN DIED AFTER BEING SHOT YESTERDAY EVENING ON CRESTON DRIVE. DEPUTIES SAY 55 YEAR OLD WILLIAM CLAY, THE THIRD, WAS ...

BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA) — A man was found dead from a gunshot wound in Western North Carolina Wednesday evening, prompting a death investigation. The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office patrol ...

No charges will be filed after a man was shot and killed in northern Buncombe County the evening of Oct. 8, the sheriff's office announced. After reviewing the evidence, the Buncombe County Sheriff's ...

In celebration of Jacksonville's bicentennial, Dr. Michael Woods is writing a series of articles on some of Jacksonville's early leaders. Few names in American political history thunder with such ...

Indiana was a swing state in national elections between the Civil War and 1900. The 1890s marked a period of political realignment, influenced by economic hardship and the rise of third parties.

The centennial of the Scopes trial has come and gone. For at least this calendar year, the print media gave substantial attention to what happened in and outside the Rhea County Courthouse in July ...

August 12, 1908 - Nebraskan William Jennings Bryan accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Lincoln on Aug. 12, 1908, launching his final campaign for the White House. Bryan gave a two hour ...

July 2025 should not come to an end without some attention paid to a very American event that took place exactly 100 years ago this month. The scene was a Tennessee courtroom, where the two main ...

William J. Jennings, of Middleborough, passed away peacefully on July 22, 2025. Beloved husband of Marie A. (Keegan). Father of William R. and Sean M. and his wife Taryn (Perry). Son of Marguerite ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...