HARPER LEE’S novel about racial prejudice became a rallying cry for the civil rights movement on its publication in 1960. It was influenced by the Scottsboro trials of the 1930s where black men were ...

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A 93-year-old man has been charged after a vehicle struck and killed an elderly victim and injured five others at a North ...

Durham Regional Police said a man is missing and three other men were taken to a hospital in stable condition for smoke ...

It was added that the near-simultaneous call-ups of Oba Femi, Trick Williams, and Je’Von Evans are “obviously” an indication ...

County Durham residents are encouraged to join the Big Garden Birdwatch, the world’s largest garden wildlife survey.

On a windy spring day in Iowa, the American goldfinch frequently darts through the gray sky with a quick burst of yellow and a looping flight over last year’s corn stalks. The bird’s presence feels ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schenectady Councilman John Mootooveren has been accused by Councilwoman Doreen Ditoro of calling her a variety of offensive names ...

A 46-year-old Nigerian man, Osemwengie Irorere, has been shot and killed inside a bus at the Yorkdale GO Bus Terminal, located on the Yorkdale Road and Allen Road area of Toronto, Canada.PUNCH Metro ...

Schenectady Councilwoman Doreen Ditoro also filed a separate complaint related to the same incident, which occurred on Dec. 30, with the Human Resources department under the city's workplace violence ...