From the 1830s to the 1860s, John Rankin, a farmer, was the linchpin of Ripley’s Underground Railroad. Well before the Civil War began, the Ohio River separated North and South, ...

Knox County Clerk David Shelton will ask the delegates attending next year's Republican State Convention to select him as the GOP nominee for secretary of state.

A law giving every convicted criminal the opportunity to speak prior to sentencing increasingly is seen as merely a nice touch instead of a statutory obligation.