Today we look back 50 years, which was also Sunday, May 11, and the 1975 edition of the Fort Myers News-Press.

On this day in 1875, Judge Isaac Parker—later dubbed the “Hanging Judge”—presided over his first court session in Fort Smith.

39.This is the aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, a deadly event that claimed the lives of 21 people in Boston ...

Peterson was not the first Black voter in United States history or the first in New Jersey. But historians say his vote ...

BOTH CLOTHES pin plants at the factory of the Oval Dish Company will be started up next week. These departments have been shut down since Jan. 23, largely because of ...

With the Confederacy collapsing in the Trans‐Mississippi, Brigadier General “St. Louis” Jeff Thompson formally surrendered ...