The program includes subjects in the humanities, sociology, literature, creative writing and history, as well as job skills, with the goal of helping inmates avoid future incarceration by acquiring skills to help them get their lives back on track.

Joseph Labriola, who founded his own advocacy group to pick up litter, estimates that he's hauled away more than a ton of debris.

In the months after surgeons removed a golf-ball-sized tumor from Luca Zayas’ infant brain, he gained the strength to sit and crawl, milestones his parents had feared he might not achieve for years.

Andrew Quattrone, 38, who already faced criminal charges in Suffolk County for allegedly soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl in Babylon last spring, appeared for arraignment in a Nassau County court.

After the chance for overnight snow showers, Monday will be mostly sunny but cold with a high under freezing.

Hunter was born on the Shinnecock reservation in 1917, attended the tribe's former one-room schoolhouse, and graduated from Southampton High School, where he was a cross-country track star and record holder, in 1936.

An IRS worker shortage, an enormous workload from administering pandemic-related programs and stalled legislation that would have given the agency billions of dollars for more expeditiously processing returns will combine to cause taxpayers pain this filing season.

The tragedy comes as the country hosts thousands of soccer players, fans and match officials from across the continent for the month-long African Football Cup of Nations tournament.

The last of the escaped monkeys from the crash of a truck towing a trailer load of 100 of the animals was accounted for by late Saturday, a day after the pickup collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway, authorities said.

He has conceded, for example, that his administration will need to pare a proposed $2.2T social infrastructure bill if he wants it to pass this year.