The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

In addition to various roles in Centre County’s business and tourism industries, Mong also played Santa Claus for decades.

Penobscot Theatre Company has announced that Artistic Director Jonathan Berry will step down at the conclusion of the 51st ...

A tribal security officer is expected to be OK after he was shot multiple times while patrolling the grounds of a Colusa tribal property on Saturday.

The pillows, packed into the parcels with the cosmetics and sex toys, contained hidden homemade incendiary devices made of a ...

Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...

Top Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said Thursday he did not raise sanctions relief in his meetings with the Trump administration in Washington, DC, but he said the punitive measures could ...

Moldova on Monday accused Russia’s embassy of engineering the escape of a pro-Kremlin lawmaker to the breakaway region of Transnistria just as he was about to be jailed over illegal political ...

The first reports of an "unknown virus" appeared on March 29 via SHOT Russian authorities have dismissed growing speculation over reports of an unidentified virus that causes patients to cough up ...

Speaking at his first Nato meeting of foreign ministers, Marco Rubio promised the US would know “in a matter of weeks” whether Russia was serious about peace. Britain and France had earlier ...

Vladimir Putin has ordered 160,000 men to be drafted into the Russian army by mid-summer despite claiming to be working towards peace with Ukraine. The record-high conscription drive suggests ...