A heir to the du Pont family fortune and the richest U.S. man to stand trial for murder, John du Pont tried to buy justice.

He was the local loon. We didn’t call him that, of course. He had buckets of money, and he was our neighbor, so we were polite. He was simply “odd.” He bought a replica police car, put on a uniform, ...

John du Pont, the chemical fortune heir who killed an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler at his palatial estate near Philadelphia, died Thursday after being found unresponsive in his Pennsylvania ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV, a former Delaware governor and congressman who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, has died. He was 86. Du Pont, a scion of the ...

What Du Pont did in World War I has been told chiefly by Congressional and journalistic witch hunters. Du Pont, in spite of its protests, was branded a “Merchant of Death.” This time E. I. du Pont de ...

On this day in 1957, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., a major chemical company, to divest itself of its 23 percent stock holding in General Motors Co. The shares, it ...

John E. du Pont, an heir to the du Pont chemical fortune whose benevolent support of Olympic athletes deteriorated into delusion and ended in the shooting death of a champion wrestler, died Thursday ...

The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who ...

Ryan Swartwood, who had held the position at UAA since summer 2022, recently took a job at California State University Northridge.

Wilmington's landmark Hotel du Pont is bringing back its afternoon tea service at Le Cavalier restaurant every Friday through ...

PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti — The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, a local official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The attack on residents ...