BOSTON—A gold medal awarded to the winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, the first Games hosted on US soil, is being auctioned off as part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended ...

The medal is much smaller than today's medals and is solid gold, while those awarded these days are silver with gold plating.

A Missouri man who crashed a rental truck into barriers protecting the White House has been sentenced to eight years in ...

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau ...