A Frankford charter school once known for stability has seen dozens of staff changes and sharp test score declines, and its five-year renewal is on hold during a district inspector general review.
Aever Bundji · October 21, 2025
The City Council's Finance Committee is set to weigh payouts to the families of a man who died in a fire department ambulance and a couple killed in a police pursuit crash, along with a whistleblower settlement.
Ken Adams · October 14, 2025
Gunfire erupted shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday outside Willie's Bar and Grill in Beaufort County, leaving four people dead and at least 20 injured, authorities said.
Jacob Leary · October 12, 2025
Hundreds joined their weekly walk around the Central Park reservoir on Sunday, hoping it would be the last before the expected return of the final 20 living hostages held in Gaza.
Jacob Leary · October 12, 2025
A 49-year-old Level 3 sex offender was sentenced to 13 to 15 years in prison after a Fall River Superior Court jury found he lured a neighbor to his home in August 2023 and attacked her.
Ishani Kapalli · October 8, 2025
Hundreds of current and former HHS employees have signed a letter accusing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of contributing to conditions that led to the Aug. 8 attack on the CDC's Atlanta campus.
Juan Gonzalez · August 20, 2025
Elijah Flores was critically injured eight days before this report when a fight at the Near West Side CTA stop sent him and an adult companion tumbling down a stairway, and police have still made no arrest.
Ken Adams · August 18, 2025
Requests for vaccine exemption forms in Texas rose 36% in July from a year earlier, and a new law taking effect Sept. 1 will make the forms downloadable, raising concern among health experts about school immunization rates.
Kendra Konchanuk · August 18, 2025
The Center for Biological Diversity wants a court to force the Arizona Department of Water Resources to review, and potentially revoke, the city of Benson's 100-year assured water supply designation.
Juan Gonzalez · August 6, 2025
Facing a $734 million deficit, the district is cutting 102 crossing guard posts, about a third of which serve only private-school students, prompting objections from a South Side alderperson and a school board member.
Ken Adams · July 29, 2025
The University of California extended admission to 7% more California residents for fall 2025, with gains concentrated at Merced and Riverside while Berkeley and UCLA admitted fewer in-state freshmen.
Amy Swan · July 29, 2025
Forensic experts say a realistic-looking TikTok speaker was created with artificial intelligence and delivered word for word the script of another creator's video, a tactic researchers describe as a new form of deception.
Juan Gonzalez · July 10, 2025
As the East African Crude Oil Pipeline advances, residents in western Uganda describe lost ancestral land, broken families, environmental damage and compensation they say fell far short.
Juan Gonzalez · July 7, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education has not released five streams of K-12 funding that Congress approved, leaving California districts short on money they had already budgeted for summer and the coming school year.
Amy Swan · July 2, 2025
A federal jury in Manhattan split its verdict, finding the hip-hop mogul guilty of two transportation-to-engage-in-prostitution counts while acquitting him of the most serious charges.
Amy Swan · July 2, 2025
Volunteers of America Western Washington says about 55 employees could lose their jobs after federal officials announced the end of funding for a specialized 988 line for LGBTQ+ young people.
Jennifer Paige · July 1, 2025
A new analysis of federal mortality data shows firearm suicides reached 27,300 in 2023, even as gun homicides declined for a second straight year.
Amy Swan · June 27, 2025
Nine Iranians living overseas told The Associated Press that automated voices, not their relatives, have answered their calls since Israel began airstrikes on Iran a week ago, and experts disagree on who is responsible.
Jacob Leary · June 20, 2025
Officials are investigating a suspected suicide and a possible overdose, as the city's jail population remains far above where it stood at the start of Mayor Adams's tenure.
Jacob Leary · June 20, 2025
The Department of Transportation proposes replacing two car lanes with bus-only lanes and adding pedestrian islands on a congested stretch between Livingston Street and Grand Army Plaza.
Jacob Leary · June 4, 2025
A Vermont judge ruled that immigration officers acted unlawfully in detaining Russian-born scientist Kseniia Petrova, who still faces a criminal smuggling charge.
Ishani Kapalli · May 28, 2025
Employees at Chicago's central library describe threats, assaults and thin staffing, while the Chicago Public Library says it is acting on safety concerns through a new task force and added training.
Ken Adams · May 7, 2025
The Boston hotel says its investigation into a May 3 incident in a women's bathroom is finished, and it has announced a suspension, staff retraining and a donation to an LGBTQ+ group.
Ishani Kapalli · May 5, 2025
Many of the riders in Saturday's Kentucky Derby are immigrants from Latin America, and people in the sport are watching the Trump administration's immigration policies closely.
Juan Gonzalez · May 3, 2025
