Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 24—MIDDLEBURG — A macabre 19th century historical artifact beckons to visitors of the Snyder County Historical Society in ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered a 16th century execution ground where a 450-year-old gallows once stood above mass graves filled with the remains of people condemned by royal justice. The ...

Pity James Linzi. A Doylestown barber distressed over losing his job, he wrote a suicide note, shot his pregnant wife, Ida, then turned the gun on himself. Though Ida died, Linzi didn’t. He was rushed ...

Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim## death camp, who has been described as the “greatest mass murderer in history,” was to ##day hanged on the only gallows left standing in the camp.