All around the edges of San Francisco Bay you’ll find reminders of a once robust military presence. The Presidio, Alameda ...

Federal investigators have found in a report that a large South Carolina jail vastly underreports the violence behind its walls, lets dozens of inmates go unsupervised for long periods and lets crimes ...

We often hear about farmers clearing land to graze cattle or grow crops, but since 1950, farmers around the world have simply walked away from millions of acres, abandoning an area that combined could ...

The FBI is investigating the attack that left at least 15 people dead and dozens injured on New Year's Day. Police say 10 people were injured in a shooting outside a nightclub in New York City.

A 1-month-old baby who was abandoned on a Colorado road median by his parents on Christmas Day had cocaine in his system, heartbroken family members said. Police in Adams County received a 911 ...

DESPITE not having an airbase in Dorset any longer, at one point in history the county had numerous RAF stations to be proud of. We no longer have any military air bases in use in Dorset but ...

A hospital cleaner in China who adopted 38 abandoned infants over a decade has been nominated as a National Moral Model. Tang Caiying, 88, is a retired cleaner from a hospital in Xinyu, in ...

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Hundreds of American Humvees have been left to rust in scrapyards across Afghanistan, three years after the US abandoned the trucks – so emblematic of its military campaign in the country – to ...

Hundreds of American Humvees have been left to rust in scrapyards across Afghanistan, three years after the US abandoned the trucks – so emblematic of its military campaign in the country – to the new ...