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 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 ...

Sept. 10: Du Pont's family files court papers seeking to have him declared "incapacitated" and to take over guardianship of his financial and other affairs. Sept. 20: Du Pont, on a videotaped ...