ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Pony Express Museum is celebrating a major milestone honoring the famous, but short-lived, mail service. On April 3, 1860, the first rider left St. Joseph, and ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The Pony Express ran for less than two years, but the legacy of the then-revolutionary mail service lives on in St. Joseph. The Pony Express National Museum at 914 ...

The one government agency that still reaches nearly every American daily — undeterred by rain, sleet, snow or even gloom of night — turns 250 on Saturday. Established in 1775, when the Second ...

The Pony Express national President Pam Dixon-Simmons galloped into Old Sacramento and came to a hard stop as the final rider to complete the relay of the 10-day long journey from St. Joseph, Missouri ...

There was an awful lot of distance between what had been the Western frontier — Missouri and Iowa — and the new Pacific coast states of California and Oregon. It could take three months or longer to ...

As severe winter weather approaches, the Roanoke Valley SPCA needs help getting as many pets as possible out of the shelter and into warm, safe homes. The one government agency that still reaches ...