Greece

Lamia, one of the lesser-known demons in Greek mythology, is a bit of a shapeshifter, known as a man-eating monster.

The "medicane" Ianos, a rare, hurricane-like storm in the Mediterranean, has brought gale-force winds and flooding to Western Greece and the Ionian islands, and is slowly making its way to the central and southern parts of the country, as...

The Athens-Lamia Highway shut down completely for approximately five hours on Monday afternoon due to heavy snowfall. The highway is the main artery which connects the city of Athens with Lamia and then continues all the way north up to...

The court of Lamia ruled on Monday that the conviction and 13-year sentence for Epaminondas Korkoneas, the police special guard who killed 15-year-old protester Alexandros Grigoropoulos in 2008, should be upheld. The Lamia Court of Appeals unanimously found Korkoneas guilty of...

A rather ...peculiar spectacle was viewed by people in the Greek city of Lamia on Friday morning, when a bull on the lam charged through city streets, reaching the city center of the Central Greece municipality. Amazed onlookers who saw the...

One woman is dead and two others are seriously injured after a train crashed into a car in Kato Tithorea town near Central Greece's city of Lamia. The crash occurred early morning on Thursday. The car was found about 1...

Agreements have been reached this week between the board of the Athens War Museum and regional authorities for Lamia to get its own Museum of Modern Greek History. The establishment of the museum, according to a memorandum of cooperation signed...

According to local media, on Tuesday, a 65-year-old man reportedly tried committing suicide by slashing his wrists with a pocket knife at a local branch of the OAEE social security fund for self-employed professionals. The event took place in Lamia,...

A 9-year-old boy was killed and his 4-year-old sibling was injured on Sunday evening at Kombotades village, near the city of Lamia in Central Greece, when a large piece of plane tree trunk collapsed on top of them. The accident...

When the authorities of the Department of Internal Affairs, checked the log book with the list of newborns in Lamia hospital, they realized that they were facing a big scandal. The book was sealed immediately and the personnel was ordered...

It was a matter of luck that Greek archaeologists discovered a so far unknown santuary. Supervising archaeologist Maria-Fotini Papakonstantinou told  "The Times of Malta" that it has been "a race against time" for them to study and transfer the findings. Time was their...

The President of the TEI in Lamia has caused quite a stir by revealing to Eleftherotypia daily that TEI students told him they had not eaten for the past two days. This statement follows the implementation of the decision...

Young students as they ride at the central squares in Lamia are at the mercy of gangs made up of Greek and Albanian minors! The attacks are sadly becoming common place. The juvenile offenders most of the time steal mobile...

Fans of rival sport teams clashed Saturday in central Greek city of Lamia, which was supposed to host the final four in handball. The clashes kicked off early on Saturday when PAOK fans attacked the offices of AEK in...

Athanasios Diakos is one of the most famous and tragic figures of the Greek War of Independence. He spent the early years of his life in theological training at the Monastery of Agios Ioannis Prodromos near Artotina. However, he was...