The Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office in Louisiana plans to continue its criminal case against the 14-year-old shot in the back as...
It is a question that has been posed to every level of law enforcement in Louisiana. From the city of Westwego, where...
Ninety-nine percent. The number sent an audible gasp throughout the City Council chamber. Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea had just read...
The soon-to-be marchers, many of them teenagers, stood in the dark, shivering in the bitter cold, bracing against brutal winds howling off...
On a cold, rainy early spring night in 2014, I attended the private meeting of a tragic club nobody wants to join....
If 20 murdered children in a small-town school could not change the debate, what would? “91%: A Film About Guns In America”...
NEW YORK — The filmmaker could not get the number out of his head. Even while he was traveling the country to...
NEW YORK — Arlene Ward knew the choice she made that night would change the lives of the young people from the...
See main story “Parents Turn Pain into Policy.” On a Sunday afternoon this past summer, a little boy who recently lost a baby...
“Shell Shocked,” a movie filled with death, violence and schoolroom chaos, disoriented the young Bronx audience. In New York, with stringent laws,...
NEWTOWN, Conn., — Nearly one year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town has struggled to reclaim its identity...
Photo by Robert Stolarik. NEWTOWN, Conn. — Sandy Hook Elementary School has been razed. The process of destroying the school — where...
Photo by Robert Stolarick In the late 1990s when Carl Siciliano worked at Safe Space, an organization that helped homeless teens, he...
Transgender teens come from all over New York to find refuge on Christopher Street but soon discover they are underserved by social-services...
WITH REPORTING BY SARAH AMANDOLARE, LINDSAY ARMSTRONG, CRAIG GIAMMONA, DARYL KHAN, AND CHRISTINE STRIECH NEW YORK–Trayvon Martin wasn’t from any of New...
NEW YORK — Peter Carroll’s first love almost cost him his family and his home when he was just a 14-year old...
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — In just about any other community in the nation, last Thursday’s public meeting here set to feature opposing...
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — On the evening of April 23, the members of the the East Ramapo Central School District’s board passed,...
Richard Wilkerson needs two hands to count the number of families he had as a boy. On a recent, unusually temperate summer...