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High in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, a quiet story of faith, education and land stewardship has unfolded over nearly two centuries. In 1842, a mission school opened on what was then rugged mountain farmland in the Valle Crucis valley, near present day Boone. For more than 130 years, religious and educational…

The Sangre de Cristo Land Grant was established in 1844 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. A land dispute in Colorado dates back to an 1844 Mexican land grant and continues to involve questions over who can access the property and for what purposes. The land, now known as Cielo Vista Ranch and traditionally called…

USCIS says a major IT consulting firm was paying H-1B workers lower salaries. As the Donald Trump administration intensified its crackdown on H-1B visa fraud, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services cited a specific case of a major IT consulting company in Vermont that was giving lower salaries to H-1Bs. The agency said that it…

Representative Image of an old hotel built around a renovated railway station near giant petrified redwood stumps (AI Generated Image) In the spring of 1923, John D. Coplen opened a hotel on his ranch in Florissant, Colorado, built around the town’s old railway station, which he had moved onto the property and renovated into a…

Image: Guinness World Records In 1985, Denise Bella Vlasis was simply a high-school student who happened to be good at singing and dancing. When her mother asked her to entertain children at a holiday party, she decided to perform a few songs by Madonna, whose career was rapidly taking off at the time. What seemed…

Corie Walsh/Image: Will county adult detention facility A US mother who allegedly killed her 2-year-old son had been discussing the high-profile Lindsay Clancy case with friends just hours before the child was found dead.Corie Walsh, 38, faces three counts of first-degree murder after her son Barrett, who was also known as “Bear”, was found hanging…