From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

Cartoonists from across the country react to the death of the leader of the Catholic Church.

A study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The research, published in PLOS One, presents compelling skeletal evidence of a human ...

The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...

Tied vote, game of chance, appointment end with Joe Lash and Jill Parton filling final two seats on Meridian school board.

Maryland boasts 11 billionaires this year, including the Baltimore-area residents who founded Under Armour, Squarespace and Inovalon, a new Forbes list shows. The magazine’s World Billionaires ...

Jewelry in a Roman treasure hoard found in Thetford Forest, East Anglia, indicates that Thetford was Pagan until the fifth century, which is longer than previously believed, reveals a new paper in ...

Local, state and federal “powers that be” clamped down on access and ramped up on armor. Jesus rode into ... “He has taken a Roman Catholic principle and made it an element of governing ...

Although the livestream’s title only reads ‘All will be revealed,’ the placeholder image depicts the roman numeral for four and what looks like a close-up of a helmeted solider. The point is ...