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President Grover Cleveland on Saturday, Jan. 4, 1896, issued the proclamation admitting Utah to the Union as the 45th state.

The family wept, wiped their tears and held each other close Saturday evening as they shuffled through onlookers and past a 10-foot crucifix, heaped flowers and remembrances scrawled along Bourbon ...

The mother of a missing Alabama toddler told investigators that the boy died and that his body was kept in a bag in a storage shed before ...