Despite a long waitlist, the number of children served in the YES Waiver program has declined because of provider shortages.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber.

A judge is expected to rule in the case of Hasson Bacote. He spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December. Bacote's case is ...

Dublin will host Ireland’s first NFL regular-season game when the Pittsburgh Steelers play at Croke Park in 2025, the league ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

A death row inmate tried to say one final word before being executed, after beating and suffocating a pastor to death in ...

Alabama executed a man on Thursday who was convicted in the 1991 rape, robbery and murder of a Birmingham woman, becoming the ...

The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s ...

Missouri Republicans are taking steps to partially reverse the state’s new constitutional right to abortion via a ballot question. The ballot resolution would ask voters to allow an abortion only in ...

A North Carolina judge is expected to rule Friday on whether a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations ...

The man accused of murdering 13-year-old Madeline Soto is asking a judge to take the death penalty off the table.

The changes at Justice are already out there in black and white. An interim memo indicates epic changes in how the department ...