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On this date in 1921, a jury in Chicago rendered a "not guilty" verdict regarding one of the most infamous trials in baseball history. And in 1990,...

On this date in 1644 a group of pilmgrims in Boston reported the first official spotting of something. And in 1943, the U.S. Warfoods Adminstration...

It's become a cultural icon, but it started with foundation work on this date 132 years ago. And on this day in 1959, a patent was filed for a product...

On this day in 1855, this structure first opened over the Mississippi River. And in 1983, a new action adventure show appeared on NBC that churned out...

Erika Beras was 90.5 WESA’s Behavioral Health reporter and now does General Assignment and Feature reporting. Her work has aired on NPR, the BBC and other networks. She has won local and national awards for her reporting; among them a fellowship from The International Center for Journalists to travel to Poland and report on shale and energy in 2012. Prior to coming to Pittsburgh Erika was a reporter at The Miami Herald. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

One way or another, someone's going to lose on election night. And there's a graceful way to concede defeat, as Adlai Stevenson showed in 1952, and Al Gore did in the disputed 2000 election.

Robots moving deeper into the American workplace—how much decision-making will we turn over to machines?

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, calls for a green ‘New Deal’ to brace the nation for natural disasters ahead.

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the first congressional hearings on UFOs — rebranded now as UAPs (Unexplained Aerial Phenomena) — in 52 years. Sadly, the search for intelligent life continues.

Hundreds of residents at the YMCA of Central Ohio will be placed in new accommodations over the next few years as the organization leaves its current…