The limited series is based on the story of Evel Knievel as he prepares for his greatest death-defying feat — the historic Snake River Canyon jump. Evel is an exhilarating portrait of a complex man ...

BUTTE - As two Butte police cars, lights flashing, led the hearse carrying Evel Knievel's body and the rest of his funeral procession down Montana Street here Monday, I briefly kicked around a lead ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman. Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against ...

During World War II, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom approached the largest U.S. chemical and pharmaceutical companies to enlist them in the race to mass produce penicillin ...

Evel Knievel was the pioneer of distance motorcycle jumping. And for his efforts, he paid the price. He crashed more than 20 times and suffered numerous injuries, mostly broken bones.

NEW ORLEANS -- Actor Matthew McConaughey was one of those kids who watched famed motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel on television, then went out and jumped mounds of dirt on his bike.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an ...