Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in ...

Rick Brown is an online editor for Central Missouri Newspapers Inc., which includes the Jefferson City News Tribune, Fulton Sun and California Democrat. He joined the News Tribune staff in 1993.

Some of the transactions do not include a transfer price because no money was exchanged for the property. All deeds are ...

A miniseries has a limited number of episodes to get it right, and HBO has the perfect miniseries down to a science.

I had no idea that an exact replica of Daniel Chester French’s studio was built, did you? French (1850-1931) built his summer ...

Corning (Adams County) invites an encounter with another iconic American personality, Johnny Carson, TV host and comedian.

Thomas Nast’s cartoon ‘Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation’ (1863) is one of the images most associated with President Abraham Lincoln’s historic proclamation. It was printed over two pages in ...

Thomas Jefferson is the only president who declined to endorse the tradition of Thanksgiving. For him, it was a question of ...

A federal judge ruled that Trump’s hand-picked US Attorney can’t legally indict James Comey or Letitia James. An important ...

Accusing members of Congress of sedition and treason and calling for them to be sentenced to death is unheard of in the ...

A seminal mid-century paper by the psychologist George Miller asserted that the human brain can hold seven items in ...

The design did not include a turkey. The phrase “E Pluribus Unum,” or “Out of Many, One,” was the only piece of their ...