After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in ...

Hall was enslaved by Confederate sympathizer Dr. Samuel Mudd of Charles County, Maryland, who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth when he fled the Ford’s Theatre after assassinating Lincoln in ...

John Oliver, host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO, is a 21-time Emmy winner. But he still remembers how frequently he bombed as a young comedian in the U.K. When he was starting out, Oliver used to ...

What’s next? The West Scranton graduate and Wilkes University senior is going to leave the institution as one of the best wrestlers to ever grace the mats. He’s set records. He’s won ...

John (Jack) H. Frankenfield, 85, of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, passed away on Friday, February 21, 2025, in Mountaintop Rehab Center surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Mountain Top ...

Robert John, an itinerant singer-songwriter who was working in construction before scoring a Number One hit with 1979’s “Sad Eyes,” died Monday. He was 79. Michael Pedrick, John’s son ...

The singer-songwriter notched his first Hot 100 hit at just 12 years old. By Rania Aniftos Robert John, a singer-songwriter whose inimitable voice lent itself to a number of Billboard Hot 100 hits ...

DALLAS, Pa. — Word spread fast across the campus of Penn State Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County's Back Mountain, as students worry their college campus may be on the university's chopping block.

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor From 2015-20, St. John served as executive producer for four seasons of TLC’s I Am Jazz, which centered on Florida transgender teen Jazz Jennings and received a ...