She and her staff at Union Carbide created synthetic materials that improved various industrial processes, including purifying water. She also developed a way to make emeralds. By Richard Sandomir ...

Jan 5 (Reuters) - Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who escaped bondage with a group led by abolitionist John ...

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Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical ...

About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...

Edith M. Odell, age 98, of Madison, passed away on Monday, December 22, 2025, at Oakwood West- Tabor Oaks. She was born on February 1, 1927, in Spring Green, Wis., the daughter of Emily and Russel ...

Edith Ann Thompson, 84, of Bloomfield, beloved wife of 30 years of Rob Thompson, Edie as she was known, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family members, on Saturday, December 6, 2025, following a ...

Edith Mae Smalley, just 37-days shy of her 100th birthday, passed away on December 9, 2025. She was born on January 15, 1926, in Beckley, West Virginia. She lived in Columbus/Hilliard OH until ...

Edith's Bridal and Tuxedo Junction has been sold to new owners, Dave and Vicki Schmidt. Previous owners Tom and Cathy Deitte are retiring after running the shop for 36 years. The new location is the ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...

AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- An Aurora man has been sentenced to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing his mother to death, officials announced Wednesday. Abel Quinones-Herstad, 20 at the time ...