John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Booth was part of a nine-person conspiracy that also planned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State ...

CLINTON - Abraham Lincoln was dead, and a nation mourned. So, just days following his assassination, three women of the Clinton Presbyterian Church organized a memorial service in honor of the fallen ...

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Editor’s note: This story was updated Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, to include details of Szramowski’s service record. A U.S. Navy sailor has been charged in federal court with distributing fentanyl that ...

This story has been updated. A sailor assigned to carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) was charged on Tuesday with selling fentanyl in the 2023 death of another Lincoln sailor, according to a charging ...