Ray Sanchez

A week after taking over the nation’s largest police department, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch found herself reassuring New Yorkers that investigators would “not rest until we identify and apprehend the shooter” who brazenly gunned down the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare outside a Manhattan hotel.

A smiling James Craig appears in an online video promoting his Colorado dental practice, saying his approach “begins with sincerely listening to the patient and wanting to find out more about where they’re coming from and what they’re looking for and what they want.”

The seemingly random killings highlight the challenges confronting New York City and other municipalities across the country as they maneuver a delicate balancing act – how to deal with soaring homelessness and mental illness and its perceived – and actual – impact on public safety.

Educators paid to have someone else take the state certification exam and now are scattered in classrooms across Texas, prosecutors say.

For Michael and Kimberly Wood’s two young daughters it was their first visit to the annual festival celebrating the culture of the Gullah Geechee community on Georgia’s Sapelo Island, the birthplace of their maternal grandmother and descendants of enslaved Africans.

In a harsh new world of climate disasters, Amber Henry clutched her four young children as they stood atop the oven in their home in Lakeland, Florida.

A week after Helene, the smell of death overpowers the cool mountain air over the isolated twisting roads of devastated rural western North Carolina.

The findings of a two-week US Coast Guard hearing into last year’s implosion that killed five people in the Titan submersible on a North Atlantic dive to the wreckage of Titanic will be analyzed with an eye toward understanding what contributed to the tragedy and, in the words of one investigator, ensuring “that nobody has to endure a future similar occurrence.”

More than a year after the Titan submersible imploded, killing all five voyagers on board, the story of the ill-fated expedition to the Titanic has taken the form of a modern-day Greek tragedy overflowing with mortal pride and heedlessness.

David Lochridge, a former director of marine operations for OceanGate who expressed safety concerns about the ill-fated Titan submersible, said Tuesday that the tragedy could have been prevented if US safety authorities had investigated his complaints.