Adrian Peeler, a man convicted in the 1999 killings of a mother and her 8-year-old son, had his sentence commuted by outgoing ...

Solomon Schechter teacher Nicholas Ricciardi, of Manchester, was arrested for alleged "inappropriate" touching a student at ...

A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of ...

Athletic, one of the leading brewers of non-alcoholic beer, is donating money to relief efforts for wildfires ravaging southern California.

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased this week to just below 7%, its first decline after climbing five ...

For the first time in seven years, UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma used 12 players in back-to-back games. But ...

As part of the Manchester shopping mall's foreclosure, the property will be sold to Namdar and two partners for $25.8 million ...

A court in El Salvador on Thursday sentenced three minors to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them ...