The coroner initially said Indianapolis resident George Tompkins "could not have hanged himself." A new plaque tells how his death was ruled a suicide.

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

The prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump joined a legal team to represent Henrietta Mason, whose son, Tyrone Mason, died ...

The first person arrested in Caleb Wilson’s case, an undergraduate student, was listed as 23. Several days later, a 25-year-old student was also arrested. The final suspect is a 28-year-old graduate ...

How the Black Death entered Europe.

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

Cancer deaths among Black men and women in the United States have declined during the past decade in the United States, a new American Cancer Society report says. The cancer death rate decreased ...