Louisiana is transferring incarcerated girls to a youth center with which the leader of the state juvenile justice office has a longstanding personal connection.

Reba Harris was the fearless leader of the Gilead House, a 27-bed women’s shelter which offers support services, classes and addiction recovery treatment for those recently released ...

Sahara Kramer's half-court 3-point field goal at the end of the first quarter seemed to fire up the Oakland Oakers, who were trailing at the time.

A woman accused with her husband of forcing their adopted children to perform hard labor denied confining two of the children ...

Sarah Buskirk, a former public defender in Fredericksburg, is helping women going through recovery from substance abuse.

Spain’s foreign ministry says that a Spanish man has been kidnapped in an unspecified northern African country. Spanish media report that the man is being held by a jihadist group.

Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation; Mr. Fola Adeola, co-founder of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc; and Mr. Kola Adesina, Managing Director of Sahara Power Group, on the conferment of ...

1970: Riots break out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. On the same day, Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. 1973: President Nixon orders a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam ...

Ghana’s newly sworn-in president, John Dramani Mahama, has announced his key cabinet appointments, naming Cassiel Ato Forson as Finance Minister, John Abdulai Jinapor as Energy Minister, and Dominic ...

Bridget Gubbins hitchhiked over the Atlas mountains of Morocco to the Sahara with her student friend, where she celebrated ...

The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...