For those of us of a certain age, the assassination of Charlie Kirk brought back memories of other momentous assassinations — ...

For those of us of a certain age, the assassination of Charlie Kirk brought back memories of other momentous assassinations — ...

The final artillery shot of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s vanquished army boomed from the top of a small hill in the village of Appomattox Court House. In the early afternoon of April 9, 1865, ...

Standing on Little Round Top’s granite spine for the fifth time, I can still trace where Chamberlain’s exhausted 20th Maine ...

Johns, whose courage as a teenage Farmville student helped set in motion the Brown v. Board of Education landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision to end school segregation, will join George Washington as ...

Nestled in the heart of Virginia’s Piedmont region, Farmville sits like a perfectly preserved postcard from another era, where the pace slows down just enough to let you notice the details that make ...

APPOMATTOX -- An effort to check on missing loved ones apparently led to the death of a man and his daughter's teenage boyfriend, two of eight victims in Tuesday's mass shooting. Melissa Stallard, the ...

* 2:30 a.m. - Members of a kitchen work crew, including Ricky Wassenaar and Steven Coy, are released from their respective cells to report for duty. * 3 a.m. - Wassenaar and Coy enter the kitchen ...