Three years ago a group of second grade students created a timeline of the events in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years and 300,000 visitors later they revisited their work. These students, now 5th graders, spend some time laughing and reminiscing before the conversation turned serious. What would have happened if [...]

It’s one of the tantalizing questions in American history: what if Robert Kennedy had not been assassinated? Would he have secured the Democratic nomination? Would he have been elected president? If so, how might history have unfolded differently?
For more than 35 years, such questions have proven as irresistible as they are unanswerable. The death of [...]

Randal McCloy’s survival is a medical mystery, but also a story of determination, faith and maybe most of all love
Randal McCloy is acutely aware that his life is called a miracle because he lived when 12 other men died.  The word may make him uncomfortable, but it’s also inescapable.  Last week, when he was released [...]

Rescuers are still stunned that Eric LeMarque’s smart thinking got him through frostbite and seven below-freezing nights in the High Sierras. How the snowboarder kept himself alive

The sun was dropping quickly through the frozen air when Eric LeMarque realized he was lost. An hour earlier, the 34-year-old snowboarder had ducked out of bounds on 11,000-foot [...]

Frank Epperson was but a young lad of eleven, when he accidentally came up with what some would later describe as the most important invention of the twentieth century. Who would say that exactly I’m not sure, but Lady Luck was surely smiling the day Frank, mixed himself a drink of soda water powder and [...]