Every time an ice cream store, a street vendor or you personally at home, scoop out some ice cream, you have inventor Alfred L. Cralle to thank for that. Alfred L. Cralle was an African American ...

Three well-known retailers purchased former Big Lots stores in Massachusetts, including Burlington, Ocean State Job Lot and Harrisburg-area-based Ollie’s Bargain Outlet.

John Lennon and World War I poet Wilfred Owen ... filling the Christmas stockings of excited young boys from the 1930s to 1950s. Invented by Liverpool businessman Frank Hornby, the massive success ...

LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - Fitch downgraded Afreximbank's credit rating to one notch above junk on Wednesday, with a negative outlook, citing high credit risks and weak risk-management policies.

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CHICAGO (WGN) — When it comes to groundbreaking, life-changing inventions in the Land of Lincoln, Illinois is no stranger. The Ferris Wheel, the Skyscraper, and even dentistry are just some of… ...

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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Attorney General Lynn Fitch is again asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to set an execution date for Charles Ray Crawford. On Monday, Fitch filed a renewed motion to set the ...

Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified when he invented LSD in the late 1930s. Hofmann hypothesized that ...

ROME (AP) — French scientist Etienne-Emile Baulieu, best known as the inventor of the abortion pill, died on Friday aged 98 at his home in Paris, his institute said in a statement. Both a doctor and a ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers reliever Evan Phillips will undergo Tommy John surgery next Wednesday, manager Dave Roberts said ahead of Friday's series opener against the Yankees. The general timeline for ...

French scientist Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of the abortion pill, died at the age of 98 at his home in Paris on Friday, his wife told AFP.