search
Janet McConnaughey
The eye of Hurricane Nate pushes ashore as a category 1 storm in Biloxi, Mississippi, October 7, 2017. (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)
October 8, 2017, 10:14 am
In first since Katrina, Hurricane Nate makes landfall in Mississippi
Emergency warnings issued for southern US states as 85-miles-per-hour winds head north
By Janet McConnaughey, Melinda Deslatte and Jeff Amy
Officers of the United States Army's segregated 366th Infantry Regiment on board the Aquitania, en route home from World War I service. Left to right: Lieutenant C.L. Abbot, South Dakota; Captain Joseph L. Lowe, Pacific Grove, California; Lieutenant Aaron R. Fisher, Lyles, Indiana, recipient of Distinguished Service Cross; Captain E. White, Pine Bluff, Arkansas (Wikimedia Commons/Public domain)
July 5, 2015, 8:27 am
Exhibit opens July 4 about black experience in WWII
Museum in New Orleans describes discrimination in the army, as well as before and after the war
By Janet McConnaughey
New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP/Pat Sullivan)
March 17, 2015, 8:35 pm
Robert Durst back in court for 2nd straight day
Jewish real estate heir suspected of killing wife; mumbled that he ‘killed them all’ during TV documentary
By brian melley and Janet McConnaughey
New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP/Pat Sullivan)
March 16, 2015, 11:27 am
Wealthy US Jewish developer arrested in TV murder mystery
Eccentric Robert Durst held on suspicion of spate of killings of women, says in HBO finale he ‘killed them all’
By Janet McConnaughey and brian melley
A Mississippi State University team found this bulla, or ancient clay seal, on a dig site in southern Israel last summer. It offers evidence of government activity in the 10th century B.C., a time when many scholars said a kingdom could not exist in the region. (Photo credit: University of Wisconsin/Nathaniel Greene)
December 20, 2014, 8:52 pm
Ancient clay seals may shed new light on King David
Archeologist discovers tiny artifacts in southern Israel possibly linked to biblical-era governments
By Janet McConnaughey
Dr. Otmar von Verschuer examines twins at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. As the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute’s Department for Human Heredity, Verschuer, a physician and geneticist, examined hundreds of pairs of twins to study whether criminality, feeble-mindedness, tuberculosis, and cancer were inheritable. In 1927, he recommended the forced sterilization of the 'mentally and morally subnormal.' Verschuer typified those academics whose interest in Germany’s 'national regeneration' provided motivation for their research. (Photo credit: Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Dahlem)
August 12, 2012, 3:22 pm
Role of scientists in Holocaust helps students grasp limits on human medical research
The ‘slippery path’ toward the Nazis’ extermination program holds important lessons for today, says Tulane School of Medicine head
By Janet McConnaughey
Load More