WHEELING, W.Va. — It wasn’t until August that Brennan Wack learned he would be the starting tailback for the Wheeling Park Patriots. Now Wack has been selected as the top running back in the Mountain ...

In this gleefully grisly cultural history, true crime author James (The Man from the Train) focuses not on a single incident, but on an instrument of murder: the axe. She begins with the weapon’s ...

Let’s say you’re married to Henry VIII but he’s sick of you, so you’re about to be killed by an executioner. Might one thing on your mind — possibly the first thing — be, “Exactly how sharp is that ...