In recent years, fatal drug overdoses have skyrocketed across the United States. Of all the major American cities where the opioid crisis has unfolded, Baltimore stands apart. It has one of the highest drug overdose rates in the country and one that disproportionately affects older Black men. Yet the issue of drug addiction — and […]
First came the rain, unforgiving in its force. Then the mud, slippery and smothering before it began to bake under the heat. The humidity only made the task of saving one of the biggest repositories of Appalachian history that much more challenging. Appalshop, a culture and arts center and a cornerstone of Whitesburg, Ky., was […]
A Southern California judge was arrested on Thursday in connection with the killing of his wife, whom police officers found dead from a gunshot wound inside the couple’s Anaheim home, the authorities said on Friday. The judge, Jeffrey Ferguson, 72, of the Orange County Superior Court, was booked into the Anaheim Police Department’s detention facility […]
A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the killing of O’Shae Sibley, who was stabbed to death on July 29 after a dispute over his dancing at a Brooklyn gas station. Mr. Sibley, a gay man who was a professional dancer and choreographer, was returning from New Jersey to his home in Brooklyn […]
Justice Clarence Thomas met the recreational vehicle of his dreams in Phoenix, on a November Friday in 1999. With some time to kill before an event that night, he headed to a dealership just west of the airport. There sat a used Prevost Le Mirage XL Marathon, eight years old and 40 feet long, with […]
Mass shooters do not often end up on trial. Many are killed or take their own lives in their attacks, some leaving behind a manifesto explaining why they acted, others leaving a mystery. But in a trial that ended on Thursday with the imposition of a death sentence, scores of witnesses took turns dissecting the […]
A skull that was found in 2011 near Gilgo Beach on Long Island has been identified as that of a 34-year-old woman who went missing in 1996, the authorities said on Friday. The death of the woman, Karen Vergata, has not been linked to Rex Heuermann, a Long Island architect who last month pleaded not […]
Edward D. Mullins, the explosive ex-leader of the New York City sergeants’ union who pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization and its members, was sentenced on Thursday to two years in federal prison. Mr. Mullins, who served for nearly two decades as president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association — […]
The body of a person who drowned in the Rio Grande was found Wednesday in the floating barrier of buoys installed by the state of Texas to deter migrant crossings from Mexico, officials said. It was not immediately clear how the person, who was not identified, ended up in the barrier, which runs roughly 1,000 […]
Outdoor dining along New York City streets, one of the rare pandemic-era accommodations that proved popular, is set to become permanent — but in a way that is expected to present challenges and new costs to restaurant owners. The City Council is expected to approve a bill on Thursday that would allow restaurants to continue […]