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RIP: University of Washington star soccer goalkeeper Mia Hamant died after fighting a rare kidney cancer for seven months. She was 21.

Today in History for Nov. 25: In 2,348 B.C., according to Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, the Great Deluge (Noah's Flood) began. In 1715, a patent was granted to Thomas Masters for ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at age 84. He died Monday of complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular ...

Reita Smith is a walking history book. While the 89-year-old historian and Columbus Near East Side native walks with a slow gait and has to be conscious of how far she treks before getting too winded, ...

October 11 is National Chess Day—honoring a timeless game of strategy and skill with roots in 6th-century India. Celebrated for sharpening logic and critical thinking, chess also marked a milestone in ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. The Charlotte Chess Center in ...

LOS ANGELES — June Lockhart, who became a mother figure for a generation of television viewers whether at home in "Lassie" or up in the stratosphere in "Lost In Space," died at age 100. Lockhart died ...