The Shirley Sherrod Story started innocently. It was a beautiful anecdote of redemption and personal growth, which she related last year at a meeting of the Georgia NAACP.

Public confidence in Congress has plummeted to the lowest level of any institution since Gallup began asking the question in 1973. One-half of all Americans have little or no confidence in the Congres

Texas went from essentially being a one-party state controlled by conservative Democrats to a state essentially controlled by conservative Republicans.

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things in life which are the real ones after all." - Author Laura Ingalls Wilder

"The Washington Compost" is mercifully less than ubiquitous down here in the Carolina Lowcountry.

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry is proposing an initiative to provide a business tax credit while helping working Texans earn a diploma or GED.

“When I touched the caterpillar, Fear wound him up unto a little ball; and my finger jumped back and I was sorry that I caused him such alarm …” from a poem by my old friend and former colleague

The obituary's headline on Page 3A of the Herald-Zeitung Thursday said, "Daughter of Civil War soldier dies at 103."

While President Barack Obama golfs his way through the Gulf Coast's oil-drenched environmental calamity, another crisis is looming across the Potomac.

AUSTIN - Tarballs washed up on Crystal Beach on Bolivar peninsula north of Galveston on or about July 4.

A very important agreement has been reached between the Sophienburg Museum and Archives and First Protestant Church, one of extreme historic significance.

Many who read of spaceflight news will remember this name: Rosetta.

DESERT LIFE: Award-winning children's author and illustrator Roxie Munro turns her attention to the great American deserts in her new book "Desert Days, Desert Nights" (Bright Sky Press, $17

This past Sunday, I attended a family reunion of sorts in celebration of my mother-in-law's 74th birthday.

Many who read of spaceflight news will remember this name: Rosetta.