Prosecutors filed a legal briefing in Irvo Otieno’s death asking for all 10 defendants to be tried together with new details about the alleged murder. A Virginia prosecutor is seeking a trial for both ...

Medieval nun fakes death to escape convent and enjoy a life of carnal lust. Sounds like the basis for a juicy novel, but this really happened during the 14th century in England. Archivist and ...

U.K. prosecutors claim that a woman arranged a “medieval duel” to the death between her husband and her lover to win her affection. Asta Juskauskiene, 35, had just left her husband when she met ...

The officers seen on video dogpiling on top of Irvo Otieno, a Black man who died during intake at a psychiatric facility, are now free of legal consequences. Let me put it this way: the same ...

In predicting the future, we often turn to our past experiences. Humanity has, after all, faced pandemics like this one before — many times, in fact — and few are as memorable and menacing as the ...

A plague of serious proportions is ravaging the world. But not for the first time. From 1347-51, the Black Death killed anywhere from one-tenth to one-half (or more) of Europe’s population. One ...

June 15 (Reuters) - Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in Central Asia has helped solve an enduring mystery, pinpointing an area in northern ...

Several years ago, I spent a rainy afternoon at the Wellcome Library in London examining a 15th-century birthing girdle. The eagle-eyed curator watched my every move, making sure I didn’t touch the ...

An Arizona resident had succumbed to the Black Death, marking the county's first plague death since 2007. Coconino County health officials withheld the person's name and gender, but confirmed their ...