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.…
As dozens of cars snaked their way onto the grounds of a refurbished horse farm on a sweltering June afternoon in Franklin, Tenn., a few volunteers stood at the entrance, cheerfully welcoming visitors to the local Pride festival. The greeting, the volunteers said, also gave them a chance to spot any person who didn’t wave…
San Francisco has been an outlier among American cities in its inability to rebound from pandemic lockdowns. Nearly a third of offices downtown are vacant, the highest share of any major city in the country. Stores are closing every week as employees, especially in the technology sector, continue to work from home. On Monday, the…
Mayor Eric Adams said in a news release late Tuesday that by 10 p.m. air quality in parts of New York City had become “very unhealthy,” rising to 218 on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index. New York’s air quality rating briefly ranked as the worst of any city in the world on Tuesday,…
Mayor Francis X. Suarez of Miami has visited early primary states in recent weeks, mulling a Republican presidential run built on the premise that his in-vogue city has boomed in difficult times — “the Miami miracle,” he calls it. Techies have flocked to the city from San Francisco. Bankers from New York. Taxes — and…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — From one vantage point, a post-pandemic boom seemed to be taking hold in Kansas City. It was the only Midwestern city selected to host World Cup soccer games. A sparkling airport terminal had just opened, replacing dingy old gates. And downtown, construction crews were at work on a giant stage outside…
The shooting of a Black teenager who rang the wrong doorbell at a house in Kansas City, Mo., last week led to calls over the weekend for the police to file charges against the white homeowner who opened fire, critically injuring him. The teenager, Ralph Yarl, 16, was hospitalized with two gunshot wounds, including one…
A Missouri city will pay $3.25 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused the municipality of wrongfully jailing at least 7,000 people in a so-called debtors’ prison scheme, in which people arrested over minor infractions were forced to pay exorbitant fines or face more time in jail, court records show. Maplewood, a St. Louis…