The Journal extensively covered the 1878 “slaughtered in his sleep” murder of a Jersey City police officer, Richard H. Smith, ...

Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson told state lawmakers Tuesday morning that human error was to blame for heat-related ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie ... picture from the L.A. Times, which called it a "certain touchdown" had Lansdell not fumbled. UCLA recovered the ball in the end zone. While ...

Welcome back, Dodger Nation, as we continue our series that will cover every Dodgers legend that has been inscribed into the ...

Perhaps the most notable such series took place in 1946, when Jackie Robinson's International League champion Montreal Royals defeated the American Association's Louisville Colonels, four games to two ...

The blonde beauty was treated to a huge table of party food and posters featuring never-before-seen throwback photos of Jackie as a child set up to commemorate the event. She was joined by her ...

Friday’s fundraiser happened on Jackie Robinson’s birthday in his hometown.