Charles Lane (31 March 1800-5 January 1870), English Transcendentalist and social reformer, greatly aided Bronson Alcott in establishing his Fruitlands community at Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1843. Alcott met Lane while in England in 1842 and brought...

Charles Lane was an English Transcendentalist, educator, and editor; a writer, reformer, and businessman; and a partner with Amos Bronson Alcott in the Fruitlands communal experiment at Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1843. Lane stands out from the other...

Francis "Bucko" KilroyFOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) _ Francis "Bucko" Kilroy, a former New England Patriots executive who was known throughout the league as a top talent scout, has died. He was 86.Kilroy died Tuesday, the team announced.Kilroy was a six-time All-Pro guard for the Philadelphia Eagles...

Today is Friday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2007. There are 339 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 26, 1788, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney.On this date:In 1837, Michigan became the...

World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a POW during the 1945 allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany, into his 1969...