Ben Webster was considered one of the "big three" of swing tenors along with Coleman Hawkins (his main influence) and Lester Young. He had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with his own ...

Since its humble beginnings in 1935, when founder Harold Webster Smith raised $25,000 from friends and family to help build and buy homes during the Great Depression, Webster Bank has stayed true to ...

Merriam-Webster has added 200 new words and definitions to its dictionary. The new additions are added based on widespread use over time, and offer a window into the world today, according to ...

The American dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” The human editors of the publisher said that the slop ...

An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from ...

A few years ago, in search of a financial lifeline, Webster University went all-in on an ambitious plan: recruiting more international students to its main campus in St. Louis than ever before. In ...

He braved frigid waters and sharks and surfed even when he had a kidney stone while breaking the record for the most consecutive days surfed. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Dale Webster, a Californian who rode ...

There are plenty of flashpoints for controversy littered among the grand pantheon of four-letter words. Plenty of examples probably come to mind immediately — from the relatively tame ("heck," anyone?