The clock tower looms high above the Georgetown University campus on May 1. Police believe the clock hands of the Gothic-style flagship building, a National Historic Landmark, were removed this ...

According to Director of Media Relations Rachel Pugh, damages totaled about $9,000. Stealing the clock hands from Healy Tower is a long-standing tradition whose frequency has decreased in recent years ...

By the 15th century, most clocks were made with the more familiar two hands, as seen on modern clocks. In 1913, a retired colonel formed the Warren One Hand Clock Co. USA in Warren, Pa.

The hour hand of a chapel clock that was taken in a student prank and replaced with a cardboard copy has been returned to a Cambridge University College around 100 years later. Trixie Baker ...

The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947. It has changed 18 times since then, ranging from two minutes to midnight in 1953 to 17 minutes before midnight in 1991. — AP ...