and a special court convened in Salem to hold the first trial in 1692. The first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was executed by hanging that June. In the months following her death ...

and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft were executed by hanging, another was pressed ...

The hysteria that began in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Salem between 1692-1693, claimed the lives of 25 people, most by hanging. Massachusetts Puritans hanged 14 women and five men.

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts ...

READING, Pa. -- The mother convicted of hanging her two children in the basement of her northern Berks County home in 2019 has officially learned her fate. Lisa Snyder was sentenced Thursday to ...

A Winston-Salem man was fatally shot Saturday, and a relative of the victim relative faces charges in the case, authorities ...

Travelers at LaGuardia Airport in New York got quite the wake-up call on Monday morning when a raccoon fell from the ceiling ...

That highest of holy days, Yom Kippur, is nowadays focused on fasting, prayer, and spiritual introspection. But in ancient times it was actually about a goat sent down to fallen angels. Or offered ...

A posh town will cut back on its award-winning hanging baskets by more than two thirds - to save energy. Councillors in Cheltenham have voted to drop the number of hanging baskets in the town from ...

Tourists often visit sites marked by death, tragedy, and disaster out of macabre curiosity. What they typically find there is enlightenment, empathy, and a connection to history.

LENOX — The historic Garden Gables Inn, hidden away off Main Street in one of the town’s oldest surviving houses ... a real estate investment and development company based in Salem. The Vittori family ...