Ray Sanchez

A former Massachusetts police detective has been indicted in connection with the killing of a young pregnant woman federal prosecutors say he began sexually exploiting when she was a teen in a law enforcement youth program.

Christina Irimie loved teaching math, laughing and sharing cheesy jokes with her students and friends, who remember her for her infectious joy and passion.

A runner’s death after the Disneyland Halloween Half Marathon may ultimately be part of a disturbing jump in the number of heat-related deaths, which have doubled across the country in recent years.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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