Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. USA flag Image by Pasko MaksimShutterstock The Fourth of July was one of America’s first holidays as a new nation, marking its ...

POTTSVILLE — It’s fitting that Nicholas Biddle, a First Defender whose blood was among the first spilled in the Civil War, rests beneath a honey locust tree in the AME church cemetery. A honey locust ...