Winters' Time' delves into one of Vermont's most famous murder trials, involving a severed head, the death penalty and a ...

In his new book, Jeff Amestoy outlines the case against John Winters and how and why Clarence Darrow came to argue on his ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

The claim: Mark Twain said, 'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.' After the death of conservative media personality Rush Limbaugh on Feb. 17, some social ...

In his place is Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), the first superstar lawyer in the United States, perhaps most famous for the "Scopes monkey trial" of 1925, in which he defended a public school instructor ...

Where: Olney Theatre, 2001 Olney-Spring Road, Olney, Md. When: Various times, now through Sept. 6 Info: $26 to $49; discounts available for students, military, students and groups; 301-924-3400; ...

Before O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century,” another courtroom clash riveted America and merited that title. In the sleepy town of Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, 1925, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People gathered Friday to honor famed Hyde Park attorney Clarence Darrow on the 78th anniversary of the death. Flowers were tossed this morning off the Darrow Bridge in Jackson Park.

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...