A driver was killed after colliding head-on with a dump truck. Kentucky State Police said troopers responded to the crash Thursday afternoon at approximately 5
Berkshire County residents gathered on Sunday afternoon at St. Stephen s Episcopal Church in Pittsfield for a candlelight vigil remembering those who have died in drunk driving crashes since 1988.
Maine State Police have charged a 19-year-old Patten man in connection with a pair of burglaries in the southern Aroostook County town of Sherman earlier this month.
Even after 141 years and two World Wars, it remains one of the most celebrated actions in British military history.
Thanks in no small part to the 1964 classic film, Zulu starring Stanley Baker and a young, plummy-toned Michael Caine the Battle of Rorke’s Drift has become a byword for standing firm in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Military cadets still study the day, in January 1879, when a small South African mission station turned supply depot, manned by 135 British soldiers a quarter of them sick and bedridden came under attack from 4,000 Zulu warriors.
Just hours before, King Cetshwayo’s regiments, or impis, had wiped out an entire British column of 1,500 men at nearby Isandlwana. Now, with dusk approaching, the Zulus were heading for Rorke’s Drift.