In 2025, award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, died. She was 95. Her family says Plowright died at a retirement home for actors in southern England, ...

Seventy-eight years ago today, one of the best-known producers and songwriters in modern music was born in Missouri.

On January 14, 1784, the United States Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, the agreement that formally ended the American ...

Double Indemnity, Laura, and Arsenic and Old Lace are all among the very best 1944 movies that we now consider classics.

Notable people born on this day include singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige, who was born in 1971, and “Brockmire” star Amanda Peet.

A trade of three sub-replacement players with Cleveland — and somehow the South Siders end up on the short end ...

Today in High Prairie! See what’s happening today in town, celebrity birthdays, local history, world history and your daily horoscope. Please send your birthdays and community events to southpeacenews ...

On January 3, 1944, Coast Guard pilot Frank Erickson flew straight into the teeth of a raging storm to deliver blood plasma ...

On this day (December 30) in 1944, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys made their Grand Ole Opry debut. At the time, the program banned all but traditional acoustic instruments. The band featured ...

On the University of Alabama campus, you’ll see one year referenced over and over: 1831. The school opened for business and began classes April 18, 1831. But it was actually founded a decade earlier ...

Very mild weather is on the way for today and then the weekend will seem more like a normal Winter. Conditions will turn mild again next week and it might stay that way through the end of the year.

Every day has a story hidden in history. Have you ever wondered what happened on December 17 that made the date special? Every year, people around the world look back to remember events that changed ...