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Ophelia Bauckholt was killed in a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in northern Vermont — an unlikely end to a life that held so much promise.

Keeping a secret is hard. But revealing it might also not be easy, especially if it’s related to the people you love. That ...

I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

Contrary to accusations of a work slowdown, public defenders are desperately trying to meet a demand that their numbers ...

Eamon Devlin’s expertise in maximising the interval has earned him clients across elite sport, from Real Madrid to Racing 92 ...

Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

Polls show the party is as unpopular as it’s been in decades. Part of the problem is that after losing to Donald Trump, they ...

Trump has “hollowed out the rural Democratic Party,” said Kaletka. His focus looking ahead is not on winning the county back, ...

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

They say Republicans can’t assume that they will always support GOP candidates, though. They’re waiting to see whether Trump ...

Bill Sullivan is a local newsman at a time when local news is struggling. That’s why, after the Folsom Telegraph publisher ...