Batavia, currently known as Jakarta, was once the capital city of the Dutch East Indies and was named after the Batavii, prehistoric inhabitants of the Netherlands. In 1610 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a trading post in the small port...

Batavia is the Latin name for the land of the Batavians during Roman time. This was roughly the area around the city of Nijmegen within the Roman Empire. The remainder of this land is nowadays known as Betuwe. During the Renaissance, Dutch historians...

A small school bus carrying 14 people rear-ended a dump truck Wednesday, seriously injuring the bus driver and two passengers, state police said.The bus was carrying 10 high school students and three staff members from the Le Roy Central School District when it collided with...

A small school bus carrying 14 people rear-ended a dump truck Wednesday, seriously injuring the bus driver and two passengers, state police said.The bus was carrying 10 high school students and three staff members from the Le Roy Central School District when it collided with...

Sharing the blame with others isn't enough to save a woman from being convicted of murder in the death of her 3-year-old foster son, who was bound in a blanket and packing tape and left in a closet, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday.All it would take...

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley jumped out of his seat. People around town cheered. But now the hard work begins for the city that was picked Saturday as the American bidder for the 2016 Summer Olympics."I was like a little kid watching the Olympics," Daley said...