An adobe-style Texas building educated Mexican and Mexican-American children in classrooms that alumni call barracks. They got secondhand textbooks and were paddled for speaking Spanish instead of ...

A large police presence was seen at an apartment complex in west Columbia late Monday night. More than a dozen officers responded to Columbia Square Townhomes in the 1000 block of Claudell Lane around ...

Chinese state media say two people have died in eastern Jiangsu province as Typhoon Bebinca brought torrential rains and powerful winds before easing into a tropical storm. Two residents of Zhoushi ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will vote for the second time this year on legislation to establish a nationwide right for in vitro fertilization. It’s Democrats’ latest election-year attempt to put ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Philadelphia voters are filling two vacant seats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. In both cases the Democratic candidates are the only ones on the ballot. Tuesday’s ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been arrested by federal authorities in New York after a grand jury indictment, which prosecutors plan to ask a judge to unseal. The major move comes 10 months after allegations ...

In Indian-controlled Kashmir, many people boycotted elections for decades in protest against Indian rule. But in the run-up to the local election beginning Wednesday, many are willing to buck that tre ...