Almost two-thirds of patients and carers who have used the NHS (pictured, file photo) in the past year have experienced at ...

Frustrating’ admin errors and ‘day-to-day dysfunction’ threatens Starmer’s pledge on waiting list backlog, researchers find ...

The tradition of sending messages, gifts and expressions of love on Valentine’s Day goes back to at least the 15th century.

Walter Schultz opened a real estate and insurance business in 1923 and operated the Oak Glen post office from the south end ...

Canada did away with its one-cent coin more than a decade ago. It could offer insight into what the U.S. may be on the verge ...

At a town hall meeting held at the Ritz Civic Center on Monday, Feb. 17, Blytheville Mayor Melisa Logan proposed a new direction for the city’s half-cent sales tax.

New England numismatists have conflicting feelings about the potential end to a coin that has survived more than 200 years of ...

However, there is precedent for eliminating the penny. In 1857, the minting of the half-cent was ordered to be discontinued by the U.S. Congress. The U.S. is not alone in wanting to eliminate the ...

The United States hasn’t discontinued a coin since the half-cent in 1857, which required congressional approval. If the penny is discontinued, it will join the ranks of other obsolete American ...

It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...