NEW ORLEANS — Each year in the weeks leading up to Mother’s Day, when the members of the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club drew up the sheet outlining their parade’s route through ... Read more
LOS ANGELES — When Maria Melendez emerged from Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., just before midnight last Tuesday, she said, she heard screams that have kept her awake at night for an entire ... Read more
A former deputy police chief in Chongqing, Tang Jianhua, has been placed under detention in the Communist Party’s disciplinary system on suspicion of taking nearly $3 million in bribes, according to ... Read more
High-ranking Oakland police officers are not being held accountable for crimes committed in the areas they oversee, a report by a former Los Angeles police chief found. A consulting group led by the ... Read more
BEIJING — The mysterious illness began with crippling stomach pain, followed by blurry vision and sudden hair loss. By the time Zhu Ling, a talented musician and chemistry student at one of China’s ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. did not tell the Boston police about the 2011 Russian warning about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombing, the city’s police chief ... Read more
Amid a surge in violent crime, the Oakland police chief, Howard A. Jordan, resigned Wednesday, citing unspecified medical reasons. For years, the city’s beleaguered Police Department has suffered ... Read more
WASHINGTON — It starts each April with the violation of lilacs. Peonies are the next to fall, then Asiatic lilies. Then, in a painful botanic denouement, hydrangeas meet their demise, yanked at times ... Read more
Two days of rioting in Bangladesh by conservative Islamists demanding an antiblasphemy law have left at least 19 people dead, more than 100 wounded and dozens of shops and vehicles destroyed, the official news ... Read more
The woman was talking on her iPhone, and never saw coming her induction into a large and growing subset of crime victims. But there it happened shortly after noon on April 15, on a busy corner of Main Street in ... Read more