Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SCRANTON — The new operators of Taney’s Costume Shop plan to preserve the past while looking to the future as the store prepares ...

On May 28, 1861, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney directly challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s wartime suspension of the great writ of habeas corpus, in a national constitutional showdown.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For over a year now, community members in Philadelphia's Grays Ferry neighborhood have campaigned to rename a city street with a controversial history. A coalition of community ...

Abraham Lincoln had a history with Roger B. Taney stretching well back from May 27, 1861, the Monday Taney rebuked him. Taney, scion of a wealthy, slave-holding family in Maryland, was a lawyer and ...