If gangs are already present in the neighborhood, that can provide an outlet. Alternatively, teenagers might form their own gangs. This is why many communities have tried to combat gangs by simply giving kids something to do. Dances, sports tournaments and other youth outreach programs can ...
Snafus occur during every election, but experts say there should be adequate time between now and the close of polls on Nov. 3 to resolve them. U.S. elections are massive, decentralized undertakings involving hundreds of thousands of election workers and multiple contractors. Mistakes happen. “...
CHICAGO —Al Carter believes there is a code of survival that all young people must learn at Cabrini-Green. He sums it up in three simple words: Duck the bullet. It means more than hitting the ground when guns start crackling and snipers start shooting. It means avoiding gangs, drugs and...
A passenger died and others were injured when aSingapore Airlines flightencountered turbulence while en route to Singapore from London, dropping from 37,000 feet to 31,000 feet in a matter of minutes. It's the latest — and most serious — example of what for many airline passengers is a ...
"Potentially, yes. And I think that with the wave propagation, with sea level rise, with climate change, that it could happen. But we will be prepared," Foley says. Zarrilli says New York is fortunate to have the resources, many of which flowed from federal recovery funds from Sandy, to...
Much of the news media focuses on the worst possible things that happen everywhere. I know this well as there are people outside of the USA that are afraid of America because of all the mass shootings. In America we have similar fears about places like Mexico, Colombia, or even anywhere ...
Finally, on August 10, 1977, police were able to arrest 24-year-old David Berkowitz, a postal worker who eventually pleaded guilty to all of the shootings. 42 Pine St. (formerly 35 Pine St.) in Yonkers is the location of the home where Berkowitz was arrested that August day. ...
“That’s just not the way it works. It takes time, energy, effort, and working with the staff and in the system to really make dramatic changes.” When it comes to the approval of products like vaccines—or antidepressants, which Kennedy has linked to mass shootings—Kennedy is unlikely ...
RUSHING MAN: Hi! I’m your public defender. Unfortunately, I’ve been assigned so many defendants that introducing myself is all the time I have for your case this month. RUSHING MAN: See you at your trial! PANEL 4 This panel is colored in shades of blue, except for the cash, which...
Or, as we in Chicago put it, clout. Whatever you call it, we got it big time. All over this land. In so many ways. “I have in the past, made note of some of those ways. And would like now to make note of another. “Atlantic magazine just put out its list of the 50 most...