Outdoor activities in some parts of the country might require a plan to shelter from lightning and/or take heat precautions.

DECATUR — Area residents have multiple opportunities to mark the Juneteenth holiday and honor local legends during celebrations in Decatur this week. Juneteenth, recognized June 19, marks the end of ...

Descendants of Timbuctoo, a historic community in Burlington County, say Westampton Township has fallen behind in maintaining the history.

Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia have released surveillance footage in the hopes of tracking down a man who, police believe, fired several shots in an incident along Rising Sun Avenue, in the ...

Fifteen years after the Pac-12 tried to woo the Longhorns, the conference is circling back for a different kind of Texas takeover. The Legislature passed laws allowing smaller homes on smaller lots ...

The former Japanese interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani surrendered to a federal prison in Pennsylvania on Monday, beginning a nearly five-year prison sentence for bank ...

Ready for Freedom Day? 30 Ways To Celebrate Juneteenth 2025 originally appeared on Parade.

Thousands of Philadelphians are expected to gather along 52nd Street in West Philadelphia Sunday to see colorful parade ...

Enshrined as a Pennsylvania state holiday since 2019 and a federal one two years later, Juneteenth is a commemoration of June ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

The Supreme Court is ordering a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be excluded ...

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...