A majority of the Supreme Court appeared inclined on Monday to uphold a series of local ordinances that allowed a small Oregon city to ban homeless people from sleeping or camping in public spaces. The justices seemed split along ideological lines in the case, which has sweeping implications for how the country deals with a…
In a forest on the outskirts of Atlanta last March, hundreds of protesters had gathered once again to try to stop the construction of a new police and fire training center. For Timothy Bilodeau, a 26-year-old who had flown in from Boston, the fight that began in 2021 had gained new urgency after state troopers…
Moments after she heard gunshots, Chasitty Logsdon, a 39-year-old nurse from Louisville, Ky., said she ran over to a man on the ground nearby, blood pooling around him. A woman beside the man told Ms. Logsdon that he had been shot in the head, so Ms. Logsdon took his pulse and started doing compressions. Once…
Prayer candles adorned with the faces of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift gaze out from shop windows. Chiefs flags flutter on car windows zipping down highways. Red clothing appears to be mandatory. Kansas City, Mo., has lost its mind, and happily so. Its beloved Chiefs are headed to the Super Bowl on Sunday, the team’s…
During baseball season, the public buses in Houston flash a message as they rumble through the city: “Go Astros!!” A similar sort of communal baseball spirit has not typically surrounded the Texas Rangers, a team whose claim to the hearts of all Texans had, until their World Series victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday,…
The state troopers who shot and killed a protester in January in a forest near Atlanta will not be criminally charged, a Georgia prosecutor said on Friday. George Christian, the district attorney for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, said in a statement that the troopers’ use of lethal force as they were trying to clear…
Forecasters have warned that areas prone to flash flooding across the New York Metro Area are likely to see such flooding on Friday, with steady rain and occasional downpours expected through the morning rush hour and for much of the day. On Friday morning, the National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning that included all…
Torrential downpours sparked dangerous flash floods in central Massachusetts on Monday evening, prompting officials in one city to evacuate residents and declare a state of emergency. Between six and nine inches of rain fell on Monday in northeastern Worcester County, where a flash flood warning was in affect until 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to the…
Ralph Yarl spoke softly but firmly as he recounted the April night when he rang the wrong doorbell and was met with gunfire. Sitting in the witness box of a small wood-paneled courtroom on Thursday, Ralph, now 17, said he had set out on a short drive to pick up his younger siblings from their…
Even as a child in the 1960s, Jan Davis felt a twinge of resentment about her hometown, Huntsville, Ala., being overlooked. Rocket tests rattled windows and doors across town, and everyone seemed to have a familial connection to the work of building the rockets that powered NASA’s mission to put a man on the moon.…