The sport of lacrosse introduced itself to Franklin College junior Addie Whitman in a rather unconventional way.

“But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman said late in life. That line is the opening salvo in Matthew Aucoin’s program notes to “Crossing,” an opera that he ...

Meg Whitman had the kind of resources most candidates only dream of, and she was a political outsider in the quintessential anti-incumbent year. So what went wrong? In the end, the vulgarity of ...

Walt Whitman is born to Louisa and Walter Whitman in Huntington Township on Long Island, New York. He is the second of eight surviving children. His father will struggle to support the family as a ...

A year after taking the helm of eBay in 1998, Meg Whitman made what she called one of her biggest blunders—missing out on the huge Internet market in Japan. In an interview with CNBC, Whitman said the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stuart Whitman, a star of Westerns alongside John Wayne like “The Comancheros” and the war movie “The Longest Day,” died in his ...

Whitman died of heart failure at Orange Park Medical Center, his son-in-law Roy Beagle said. Whitman's tenor falsetto and ebony mustache and sideburns became global trademarks - and an inspiration for ...

Mae Whitman was lucky to grow up with one of Hollywood's most famous faces as a close friend and mentor. The actor, 32, first met George Clooney when she was only 8 years old, but the pair instantly ...