“Stranger Things” has become a hit series for many reasons, including its effective use of 1980s nostalgia. In one Alabama city, that nostalgia is striking an emotional chord while creating an ...

Ruth Madoff married Bernie Madoff when she was 18 and claimed to be shocked when he was arrested for fraud in 2008 Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

After the senior class at Cleburne County High School, in Heflin, Ala., covered the local police department in toilet paper last month, folks were surprised to see the police chief's response: Fight ...

Heflin, Alabama — Every Halloween season, when the sun sets in the small Alabama town of Heflin, the local students from Cleburne County High School toilet paper a few homes. But last month, they ...

To kids in the neighborhood east of Interstate 290 in Worcester, Massachusetts, she was the mom who baked brownies and blondies for everyone after school and whose home was the starting point for ...

Ellen Heflin Ramsey, born September 5, 1942 in Richmond, Virginia, died October 6, 2025, in Davidson, North Carolina. She is survived by her son, Harmon Scott Ramsey, daughter-in-law Laura Cunningham, ...

The delicate, woven wire sculptures of Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) are having a major moment at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where the late Bay Area artist’s first posthumous ...

The 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card sold for $7.2 million in Dec. 2023. This weekend, it sold for $4.02 million at Heritage Auctions. It's believed to be the largest loss ever on a card. The ...

Detail of work by Ruth Asawa in Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective (all photos Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic) I’ve been thinking about Ruth Asawa’s shadows. They’re surprising, not shaped how you might expect ...

— What began as a lighthearted homecoming prank on the Heflin Police Department has blossomed into a full-fledged “Toilet Paper War” embraced by the whole community. — The prank’s reach extended far ...