In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

The American Civil Liberties Union persuaded John Thomas Scopes, a young science teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, to challenge the law in court.

Columnist and Physics Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...

Disbarred attorney John Richard Bordallo Bell, who held his own staff hostage in August 2021, has been sentenced to five years in prison, ordered to pay restitution to his victims ...

Undercover FBI probe netted corrupt school board members, county commissioners and state senators in one of the state's ...

State Sen. Brent Taylor of East Memphis was happy to see Stephen A. Smith call out the crime problem in Memphis this week on "First Take." ...