The 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Freedom March will return to Florence on Monday, Jan. 20, beginning at 10 a.m.

He made you feel special. Yet, each of his friends were important to him as if no other was. His heart was big enough to hold ...

The Rev. Virgil Wood, a major figure in the fight for civil rights in Lynchburg, died on Dec. 28 at the age of 93, leaving a ...

Neighbors say there is also a curve that makes it hard to see oncoming traffic, and whether it factored into the deadly crash ...

A fatal crash is under investigation in the 2000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive NW, near Peyton Road SW, in northwest ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors the legacy of the American civil rights icon, is this month. Here ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital, followed by a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, is being honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation's ...

Thursday's services capped six days of remembrance for Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Following the honors in ...

Former Columbus councilman and Ohio Sen. Ben Espy (l) and former Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman (r) in 2007 at the opening of ...