A former U.S. Army private was sentenced on Friday to 45 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last year to charges that he had shared sensitive information with a Satanist neo-Nazi group in a plot to kill members of his own unit while they were serving overseas, federal prosecutors said. The former soldier, Ethan […]
Several months into her U.S. Army service in Germany, Private Amanda Gonzales called her mother back home in Texas and told her that she was pregnant. She was only 19 and on her first assignment in the Army. She was excited and planned to name the child Alicia Marie, her mother, Gloria Bates, recalled. Ms. […]
A brief history of New York City alligators. Clockwise from top left: Wally, Toby, Tick Tock and Bobby.Credit…Animal Care Centers of NYCBy Hurubie Meko An emaciated alligator found in Prospect Park last week was the latest in a long line of saw-toothed reptiles found all over New York City, raising several obvious questions: What? How? […]
It has become a tragic routine: A mass shooting draws attention to an area, thrusting it into an unfortunate spotlight. Suddenly we want to learn the intricate details of a community that had always been in our midst. And so it went last month when Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park became the destination […]
On a recent Thursday morning, Maxine Montello was at work making breakfast for 48 hungry diners. She had a stack of numbered plastic trays, and a clipboard with a list of corresponding menu orders. Methodically, she placed each tray on a scale, cut up pieces of frozen squid and cold raw herring and added them […]
Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll see what a venerable Brooklyn church discovered when it dug deep into history. We’ll also look at allegations that corrections officers at the Sing Sing maximum-security prison stripped and beat inmates in November. There is usually a story behind the stained-glass windows in a church. The story that congregants at […]
A day after a journalist was killed on an assignment near Orlando, Fla., his colleagues were in shock and grief. And experts in journalism said it was a warning sign that the world of local news might be growing more dangerous as reporters rush to cover the daily drumbeat of gun violence. The killing of […]
A little girl standing on her toes to place her palm on her deceased father’s image on a television screen. A mother who has left her son’s bedroom exactly as it was on Halloween 2017. A man married to a woman who lost her legs who clutches a pair of her socks in bed every […]
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On a chilly Thursday morning this month, I hopped on a Citi Bike in Upper Manhattan and headed to the south end of Central Park. I was in search of a runaway owl. I’m a […]
Three climbers who were attempting to reach the peak of a mountain in Washington State over the weekend were killed after a climber in their group triggered an avalanche as they ascended, prompting a dangerous white mass to hurtle toward them, the authorities said. The climbers, who were part of a group of six members […]