Every year on May 20th, Charlotte (Mecklenburg County) celebrates 'MecDec Day'. A celebration of Charlotte being the first city in America to declare its independence from England.
In 1775 the 13 British Colonies in North American were contemplating a break from Great Britain. As word of the Boston Tea Party spread through the North Carolina Colony, people in Mecklenburg County decided to have a meeting,...
"...stop believing in those who cast doubt upon you, and to start believing in yourselves..."
As Parker Mantell made his way the podium to deliver Indiana University’s commencement speech, he confessed that he might not have been the obvious choice to deliver the address.
“As a person who stutters, I can be no more certain that, in this room and in this hall, are...
Many doctors are considering a man named Miguel Cruz to be a walking and driving miracle. He is about to turn 103 years young this summer, and just had open-heart surgery.
He's a pool shark who drives himself almost every day, talks politics and sports with his “crew” at his local restaurant, he washes his own laundry, pays his own...
The most shocking discovery in the history of South Korea may have just taken place. Park Si-chan had trouble sleeping the night before the biggest trip of his young life, a four-day journey with his entire junior high school class to a lush volcanic island known here as the "Hawaii of Korea."
The trip was the students' last chance for...
It is clear that the majority of large Southern California fires that have been spreading over the past several years have been direct results of recent years were found to have human causes.
There was a fallen power line in 2007 near San Diego that set off a fire that scorched nearly 200,000 acres and killed two people.
In 2009, small sparks from a weed cutter are thought...
Barack Obama seems to have been smiling extra big at the teeth whitening business lately. In a country still struggling economically and suffering deep partisan division, there will be far less hope and optimism than there was in 2009. There will be more of one thing though: corporate money.
State regulators weren’t smiling at the recent actions by Obama. This...
SunTrust Bank has just followed HGTV's lead of breaking their contract with the Benham Brothers due to their Christian faith. The bank has cut all ties with would-be reality stars David and Jason Benham after a slanderous article maliciously attacked the brothers for their biblical statements about abortion and gay marriage.
In a statement that was just released about SunTrust's actions, David Benham commented...
An unprecedented discovery has just been made by divers in the caves of the Yucatan - a near perfect human skeleton from the Americas. This gives even further proof that the original Native Americans descended from Siberian migrants who crossed a land bridge to North America thousands of years ago.
The discovery was made in a water-filled cave, just north of...
American's all around our country are now outraged at the extreme fees the 9/11 museum is planning on charging. Local lawmakers were especially vocal about the Ground Zero museum’s plan to charge high admission, saying no one should be forced to pay these kinds of fees to give their respects at the site of America’s worst tragedy.
Today, both President Obama...