Today, the fabled Taunton hitching post has been refurbished and is on display far away from the scene of its liberation.

TAUNTON — "What is that thing on the sidewalk?" I asked my father. "It's a hitching post. Before there were cars, people used them to tie-up horses," he said. Hitching posts used to be ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...