I live in New Orleans where there are regular pirate festivals with all kinds of drunken tourists dressed in expensive pirate drag wandering about before going to work on Monday wherever they came ...

SALEM — Whether it’s Johnny Depp, Bluebeard or Capt. Hook from Peter Pan, pirates in popular culture are pretty much a fairy tale. The stories of “real” pirates who sailed the waters of the Caribbean ...

Some pretty remarkable things tend to happen after Scott Mitchen visits with schoolchildren. The kids click off their TVs, log off their computers, shun video games and tend to forget all about their ...