By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley Richards knows how bleak life can be at Rikers Island, New York City's notorious jail complex. As a young man, he spent two years locked up there for robbery. Now, he runs the place as the city's new Department of Correction ...
By AARON KESSLER and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press At the peak of the crackdown, carloads of masked immigration officers were a common sight in the streets of Minneapolis, while thousands of people were being arrested every week in Texas, Florida and California. "Turn and burn," top ...
W WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it launched another strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The Trump administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Okello Chatrie's cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country. Some U.S. doctors are worried about the potential for a bad year for tick-borne diseases. "If you have a lot of exposures, there will probably be more ...
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and JOSHUA A. BICKEL Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — On Newport's south side, historic and opulent mansions sit on an avenue with mature trees that help cool the neighborhoods, clean the air and foster wildlife. On the city's poorer North End, where some ...