The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague, one of the deadliest diseases in human history ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.

In 1347, ships reached Sicily with the Black Death. In a year, it spread across Europe to England. In 1347, ships from the Black Sea arrived in Sicily carrying an unseen killer. Rats and fleas aboard the grain vessels spread the plague that would become ...

The Connecticut State Conference of the NAACP is launching an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of a 17-year-old male who was found dead in the woods along the banks of the Quinnipiac River in Wallingford,