Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years.

Chadwick Willacy is scheduled to be executed on April 21 for the 1990 murder of his neighbor, Marlys Sather. Willacy was convicted of bludgeoning, strangling, and setting Sather on fire after she ...

If you’ve been going to the theatre lately, you’ve seen plenty of what I’ve started to think of as “piñata plays.” In this sort of story, a big family gets together and there are a lot of secrets. For ...

With more than 15 (!) productions set to open on Broadway before the end of the 2025-2026 season, it can seem like a daunting prospect to choose which shows to see. Playbill recently suggested five ...

President Trump and his minions seem intent on doing everything they can to minimize the singular nature of the Black experience throughout American history, especially the role that racism has played ...

Freydís was the sister of Leif Erikson, but her name became infamous for something far darker. During a voyage to Vinland, she betrayed her partners, had their men executed, and personally killed the ...

Following a record 19 executions in Florida last year, Ronald Heath is scheduled Tuesday to be the first person put to death in 2026, for a 1989 murder in Alachua County. Heath, 64, is scheduled to be ...

When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate is a legal process that distributes a dead person’s assets and settles their ...

China has executed 11 people linked to scam syndicates operating out of Myanmar’s border regions, as a warning to criminal gangs running a multibillion-dollar global fraud industry. Chinese State ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...