Filmmakers thank festival's team for support, do not mention film's removal and reinstatement after reportedly being asked to ...

For thousands of years, a disease repeatedly struck ancient Eurasia, quickly spreading far and wide. The bite of infected fleas that lived on rats passed on the plague in its most infamous form — the ...

In February of 1897, a family of six -- four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother -- was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota. The weapons used were a shotgun, ...

The plague, aka the Black Death, made a reappearance in California last week after it infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.

The last human plague case in New Mexico was reported in a Lincoln County resident last year. The man later died from the ...

A California resident has tested positive for plague after camping in South Lake Tahoe - the latest in a string of positive cases in the western U.S.