Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese's column for Religion News Service, "Signs of the Times," appears regularly at National Catholic Reporter. In 2014, Reese was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S ...

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the use of race in admissions to its top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for ...

This legislation comes in response to claims from several Alabama mothers that they were harassed and threatened by Jefferson County judges for bringing breastfeeding babies with them for jury duty.

Outfielder Lane Thomas has played six games with the Triple-A Columbus Clippers on a rehab assignment including on Tuesday night, when he was a designated hitter vs. the Iowa Cubs, the Triple-A ...

Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson wants to represent Team USA in the Olympics. Shortly after the NFL’s 32 owners voted unanimously to allow active NFL players to participate in Olympic flag ...

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson is among many who are excited about the league's decision. "Just to think about the chances of playing in the Olympics and getting a gold medal ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

But among all the items, none deserves its position of special honor more than the portable lap desk on which Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson designed the desk ...

Bates, a Buckingham native and an archaeologist at Longwood University in nearby Farmville, was looking for traces of the courthouse, built between 1822 and 1824, that Thomas Jefferson designed.

In 1934, local business leaders promoted the idea of a memorial to Thomas Jefferson and the expansionary vision of his Louisiana Purchase. But their real aim, according to Tracy Campbell ...

Days after strong storms hit Jefferson County, massive trees are still impacting roads and laying on top of damaged houses. The storms took down power lines and trees which blocked some roads.