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Book imagines the lost details of the Hatfields and McCoys

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When Parkersburg native Anne Black Gray told a writer she met at UCLA she was working on a book of historical fiction on the Hatfield and McCoy feud, he was instantly dismissive. "What are you writing about those people f...

The ‘miracle child’–one of the country’s richest heiresses—finds her life partner

Thalassa “Sasha” Gatlin Elizalde-Del Rosario is born lucky. She is an heiress twice over, being the sixth of broadcasting magnate Fred J. Elizalde’s eight children and the sole inheritor of her maternal grandmother, Adela Catigbac Salas-Gatlin.

Green: Take care in crediting, blaming God

'It's a God thing." "I'm blessed." Common phrases, but my theological radar goes on alert when I hear such "God-talk." "I'm blessed," is often followed by the reason one feels that way, either stated or implied.

Nanaimo makes soccer history

Somewhere in a box in a basement in Ladysmith sits the Challenge Cup. It’s unloved, unpolished and forgotten. But it wasn’t always that way. Some 120 years ago, that handsome piece of silver was the most coveted prize in all of British Columbia soccer.

Does Historical Coincidence Unravel Obama's Legitimacy?

I have this nasty habit of researching things that I take an interest in; I’ve been that way forever. I think I learned more from researching topics on my own than I did from formal schooling.