Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.
The state Supreme Court Friday appointed itself and North Carolina lawmakers the moral compass of its people when it upheld a ban on Internet sweepstakes games.
Kaine Riggan, manager of the Royal Palace Theatre, all but pulled off a Christmas miracle, assembling a cast of local actors to accompany Joyce DeWitt of Three’s Company fame in a touching, yet Southern Gothic Christmas musical.
