He remained partly because of the rush of watching the park rise and partly so his two girls could graduate from Moorpark High School. With the youngest set to graduate this year, he decided to take on a new challenge. When he goes to Yosemite, he'll...

Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A boatman ferries commuters in his boat across a canal in Cochin, Kerala. On the morning of March 12, 1928, William Mulholland — the chief engineer under whose supervision the St. Francis Dam in Santa Clarita,...

Attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants presented arguments in U.S. District Court in Providence. The lawsuit claims William Mulholland and other Pawtucket officials gave St. Raphael Academy, a parochial school, preferential use of public athletic...