On March 25, 1911, a cigarette butt tossed into a bin of fabric scraps starts a deadly fire that sweeps through the eight, ...

Davenport public works employees rallied Wednesday in front of city hall as negotiations have slowed over a new multi-year ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

It’s déjà vu all over again. The robber barons are back. The wealthy have their cottages by the sea in the Hamptons, in international mansions, and at Mar-a-Lago instead of Newport. Their yachts are ...

Find out how to post announcements or events to your local Patch site. In its time, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in downtown Manhattan's Asch Building in what is now SoHo, held the record ...