By Eric Bottjer JOHNNY CHESHIRE, 77, Scottish featherweight, passed in early 2024. Cheshire represented England in the 1968 ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the personal and historic aspects of the mass movement of Black Southerners to the North known ...

Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned several people he said could be unfairly prosecuted ...

A 1943 photo shows the Illinois Terminal Depot in Alton partially submerged during a Mississippi River flood that crested at ...

On Jan. 16, 1991, in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm, an Allied combat operation to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball’s commissioner. 1947 — Carl Hubbell, Frank Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Today in Music History for Jan. 17: ...

She has joined forces with trainer Barry Porter, following a course of success that culminated in the World Boxing Organization’s championship.

As the national boxing team gets ready for the World Women Boxing Championships, they need at least four weeks to gain full fitness for the global showpiece slated for March in Belgrade ...

Showboat Resort Atlantic City will host a three-day, all-female amateur boxing weekend next month. The East Coast Women’s Championships, scheduled for Feb. 7-9, is being billed as “the first ...

Holly Holm may have opted to leave the UFC, but she’s not done fighting. The former UFC women’s bantamweight champion and ...

At the Paris Olympics, middleweight boxer Cindy Ngamba became the first athlete competing as a refugee to secure a medal.