Ibragim Todashev was fatally shot early May 22 during questioning about a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, as well as his relationship with deceased Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan…
The following is an excerpt from Looking at Mindfulness, in which author Christophe Andre explores how viewing art or reading poetry can help achieve a sense of calm. Calm, attentive…
If my father had not been brave and hungry for a better future in America, there would be one fewer public administrator, one fewer third grade teacher and one fewer…
MONONGAHELA, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania man who was angry that his disabled father wouldn’t get out of bed has attacked him with a set of mounted antlers….
Obama asked McQueen about his run-ins with the law, getting back on a straight path and struggling to stay on that pathalso chiming in with his own experience growing up…
The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, the scrappy former president of the University of Notre Dame who stood up to both the White House and the Vatican as he transformed Catholic…
Growing up as a queer person of color is not, by any means, an easy intersection of identities to navigate in the world. But what would it be like to…
A 911 dispatcher who told a 13-year-old girl to “stop whining” as her father lay dying in a hit-and-run crash on a Maryland highway is out of the job. –…
Maynard was once asked what her middle initial, “J,” stood for. “Journalism,” she responded, and in a long career in the field she worked as a reporter for such papers…
Rachel Pedroso had not seen her father since a bloody night at a crowded restaurant in 1992 until she swiveled Wednesday in a Philadelphia courtroom and eyed the graying defendant….
The last time Antonieta Ledezma, 23, saw her father was in early January when she left Venezuela bound for New York. At the time, her teary-eyed dad embraced her and…
Ifetayo Harvey’s father was sentenced to 15 years in prison for cocaine trafficking when she was just 4 years old. Even though he only served half of his sentence, he…
Bol Bol, center, during a junior varsity game at Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park, Kan. Bol, the son of the former N.B.A. player Manute Bol, is a freshman.”…
In the latest installment of his “New Father Chronicles” video series, dad La Guardia Cross is observing Black History Month. Titled “His Father Left, My Father Stayed — My Black…
WASHINGTON — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will lay out a vision of American foreign policy on Wednesday aimed at pushing his nascent 2016 presidential campaign out of the shadow…
Banks family attorney Mark Bogen said Banks’ agent, Regina Rice, had the octogenarian sign a new will three months before his death. “Our family thought that Ms. Rice was helping…
Authorities in both states are trying to put together a timeline of events that ended with the shootout Saturday. How did the teen, from Corbin, Kentucky, get from his hometown…
When photographer Tracey Buyce’s mom died in 2007, her parents had been married for 46 years. In 2011, she lost her father too. Courtesy of Tracy Buyce Buyce’s parents on…
Owens had been a diabetic since he was 8. He died Thursday surrounded by relatives at his Los Angeles area home, his son Chris Owens said. “His body just kind…
A custody dispute may have led a New Mexico father to fatally shoot his 7-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself, authorities say. Rio Rancho police discovered the tragic…
“Met” is a stretch. My father was 32. My mother was 21 and had no say in the pairing. It was a shock to her when the man who came…
Contemporary theologian and author Father Richard Rohr has made it his mission to help people connect with their true selves. He believes that everyone has two sides: the true self…
The first night I spent away from my son, I was certain I would never sleep. He had left with his father only a few hours before and was less…
My father, Andrew Jefferson Offutt V, grew up in a log cabin in Taylorsville, Ky. The house had 12-inch-thick walls with gun ports to defend against attackers: first Indians, then…
Becoming a diaper expert is a rite of passage for all new parents, and one first-time father decided to share his expertise with the world in the form of a…
Penny’s sister Shannon was found dead in her car at the bottom of a cliff more than five years ago, and her death was ruled a homicide. The case remains…
Are you tired of seeing the bumbling, clueless, buffoon-like dads in commercialsthe ones whose biggest contribution to child rearing is uttering “Yes dear” as their partners do all the work?…
The semipro football player for the Boston Bandits was 27. Days after he was found dead, then-NFL star Aaron Hernandez was arrested and charged with murder. Testimony in the case…
A defining moment in the life of Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s new regional director for Africa, came when she was 9 and her father realized that her…
And yet for them it will be so much more. For Ferguson, a Missouri native, it’ll be a chance to thank his father, Bill — the man who never stopped…