Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. The 2020 election made Maine Sen. Susan Collins a political legend. National Democrats, who’d ...

Sarah McDonnell McLeod, who lived her life to the fullest every day, inspired by her loving family and her Catholic faith, passed away at her home in Nashville on Thursday, June 11, 2026. She is ...

MADISON, Wis. -- For years, viewers in southern Wisconsin have welcomed Susan Siman into their home each evening, trusting her to deliver the day’s biggest stories with professionalism, compassion, ...

Ms. Collins, the longest-serving Republican woman in Senate history, is also her party’s most vulnerable incumbent this year. By Tim Balk Reporting from Bangor, Maine See more of our coverage in your ...

Mullins McLeod is a personal injury attorney based in Charleston, South Carolina, and a native of Walterboro. He is a graduate of Wofford College. McLeod is the nephew of former state Rep. Walt McLeod ...

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The 53-year-old, who is serving a life sentence for drowning her two young sons in a lake in 1994, was denied parole in November 2024, after spending 30 years incarcerated. Now, Smith is once again ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. — On hot summer nights in her hometown of Starke in rural North Florida, Susan McLeod remembers waiting impatiently for the mosquito truck’s rumble and smoke to billow into sight. The ...

Rachel Carson brought awareness to the harmful effects of pesticides including DDT when she published her book “Silent Spring” in 1962. It took the United States another decade to ban the pesticide.

After more than a decade on mid-Michigan television, WNEM TV-5 anchor Meg McLeod signed off for the final time Friday evening, closing her last 6 p.m. newscast and marking the end of a career that ...

Three decades ago, Susan Smith shocked the world when she confessed to drowning her two young sons in a South Carolina lake, after reporting them kidnapped. Susan was found guilty of murder and is ...