He was a poet, a storyteller and an educator, entertaining everyone from young tourists to the future president of the United ...

Amos created the Famous Amos cookie empire and eventually lost ownership of the company — as well as the rights to use the catchy Amos name. In his later years, he became a proprietor of a cookie shop ...

Pete Rose, banned from baseball over gambling violations, is getting a measure of posthumous redemption through a pardon for federal tax evasion.

Lafontant was born Jewel Carter Stradford in 1922 to a prominent African American family. Her father, C. Francis Stradford, ...