Cannabis advocates weren’t just using their high holiday of April 20 to light up _ they were throwing fundraisers for medical marijuana clubs and planning their next steps to legalize the herb for medicinal use.

A black state senator is pushing a bill that would require South Carolina cities and counties to give their workers a paid day off for Confederate Memorial Day or lose millions in state funds.

Australia Day or Invasion Day?

Sept. 11 will be a paid holiday for police officers in one Massachusetts city despite the opposition of some critics.

A service marking what would have been civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s 80th birthday is under way at the Atlanta church where he preached from 1960 until his death in 1968.

A service marking what would have been civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s 80th birthday is under way at the Atlanta church where he preached from 1960 until his death in 1968.

Martin Luther King’s flame has always burned brightest in Atlanta, but in a real sense, the torch is being passed to Washington, D.C., with his birthday and holiday taking on dual meaning for many Americans because it falls on the eve of Barack Obama’s in

Asante Bradford gave his bosses nearly three months notice that he would not be at his desk on Jan. 20.

Now this was a Holiday Bowl.

A Dec. 26 story about Amazon.com’s holiday orders carried a Seattle dateline. It should have carried a New York dateline, where the writer is based.