Gladys MacKnight, 17, grabbed the ax and hit her mother in the face after an argument, then continued hitting her in the head ...

Lizzie Borden took an axe and overnight became America’s original ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’ icon. In Bury The Hatchet, ...

Monticello President George Rohrbaugh watched as class members took part in the ceremony ...

On June 20, 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ...

See the eerie side of Chicago with the Windy City Ghosts Walking Tour. This one-hour, guide-led experience reveals chilling ...

Lizzie Borden, Frank Lloyd Wright (in Spring Green, Wis.), Henry VIII and many others pop up in "Whack Job," Rachel McCarthy James' history of axes and axe murders.

“Lizzie Borden took an axe.” Around 130 years ago, Lizzie Borden allegedly hacked her way into infamy by brutally murdering her father and stepmother with an axe. Despite what the famous rhyme claims, ...

In June 1893, Lizzie Borden stood trial, and was later acquitted, for killing her father and stepmother with an ax. The house where the crimes took place is now a working bed and breakfast; it's ...

‘Fall River Fishing’ Review: So She Dated an Axe Murderer. A casually absurd play about the infamous Lizzie Borden, presented by Bedlam, cleverly undercuts the central dramatic event.

On June 20, 1893, a jury in Fall River, Mass., acquitted Lizzie Borden in the ax murders of her father and stepmother.