Fittingly, and not surprisingly, given the decade's musical climate changes, the last 12 months of the '70s marked the turning of an era. Most artists were still on an annual album release schedule, ...

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Carol Wagner, Wichita Falls City Council member and mayor pro-tempore, found herself in charge of the city after a devastating tornado struck. The tornado, described as a mile wide and leaving an ...

While most people were still asleep just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, a malfunctioning valve set off what would become “the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant ...

There was no apparent connection between the victim and the suspect. A man has been arrested in a woman's 1979 cold case murder after investigators used genetic genealogy to zero in on his identity, ...

After the late president and military leader, Jerry John Rawlings, assumed office for the first time through a coup d'état in 1979, he caused the arrest of some senior military officers in the Ghana ...

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Billy Corgan might be bona fide alt-rock royalty now. But in 1984, he was a pizza delivery slinging ‘zas all over the windy city of Chicago, Illinois, in an old family beater. Corgan recalled sitting ...

SEOUL: Exactly 45 years ago, South Korea was placed under a military dictatorship following the assassination of then-President Park Chung-hee. Chun Doo-hwan, an army major general, overthrew the ...

A Nov. 14 Instagram post (direct link, archive l i nk) uses a meme with an image of former President Jimmy Carter to claim U.S. educational achievement has plummeted. “In 1979 I created the Department ...

A man who passed a lie detector test in 1979 clearing him in the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl was identified as her suspected killer, authorities announced Wednesday. Esther Gonzalez’s body ...

Lewis Randy Williamson found the girl’s body off of Highway 243. Esther Gonzalez, 17 at the time, had been raped, killed and dumped in a snowbank on the side of the highway. Williamson called the ...