Scarlett Fascetti approached the dilapidated red house as if it were a shrine. “I couldn’t wait to see it. I’m so into this thing,” said Ms. Fascetti, 51, a teacher who had traveled 30 miles from her Long Island town to a section of Massapequa Park that has become an instant tourist attraction for a […]
The police in Dallas said Wednesday that they had arrested a man who they believe killed three women whose bodies were found in a three-month span just south of downtown. The man, Oscar Sanchez Garcia, 25, will be charged with the murders of 60-year-old Kimberly Robinson, 25-year-old Cherish Gibson and a third, unidentified woman, the […]
Lilli Vincenz, who became a gay rights activist in the hushed, repressive era before the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, when such a concept scarcely existed, making a mark as a newspaper editor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist devoted to L.G.B.T.Q. issues, died on June 27 in Oakton, Va. She was 85. Her death, at a care […]
For more than two years, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has pursued an increasingly aggressive approach to the border, sending thousands of National Guard troops and police officers to patrol the Rio Grande and testing the legal limits of state action on immigration. But in recent weeks, Texas law enforcement officials have taken those tactics […]
James Reston Jr., an eclectic historian and novelist who helped the British television host David Frost prod former President Richard M. Nixon into admitting his complicity in the Watergate scandal and apologizing in a wrenching broadcast interview, died on Wednesday at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 82. The cause was pancreatic cancer, […]
Strong thunderstorms and heavy rain caused significant flooding in southwestern Kentucky early Wednesday, prompting the authorities in one county to scramble to rescue residents from rising waters. “Major flooding like many have never seen is occurring” in Graves County, along Kentucky’s border with Tennessee, the sheriff’s office said, adding that a flash flood emergency was […]
Jasmine Robinson sat in a Suffolk County courthouse Friday, listening intently as prosecutors explained how they had tracked a man they suspected of killing and burying at least three women on Long Island’s South Shore. She heard how they had used DNA painstakingly harvested from his pizza crusts, triangulated his mobile phone signals and spent […]
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll solve for x and y, where x is a group of high-level mathematicians and y is an improvisational theater workshop. This one’s easy, even if you’re not very good at math. We’ll also look at Mayor Eric Adams’s fund-raising. What’s funny about quadratic equations? Is there something to laugh […]
The Illinois Supreme Court upheld a measure on Tuesday eliminating cash bail in the state, finding that Democratic legislators acted properly when they passed the law, which will transform the Illinois criminal justice system and limit judges’ ability to hold defendants in jail before trial. The Illinois law, which went beyond similar bail overhauls in other […]
On Monday, Phoenix reached a miserable milestone: It was the first time since 1974 that it had 18 days in a row of 110-degree or more temperatures. On Tuesday, it was poised to break that 49-year-old record and hit Day 19. The forecast called for a high of 115 degrees Fahrenheit. People in the Southwest […]