The Cemetery of Untold Stories' reads like a novel made up of all the stories that Julia Alvarez no longer wants to carry in ...

The number of books banned in public schools over the past year skyrocketed to more than 10,000, with two states—Iowa and ...

Also known as las Mariposas, the Mirabal sisters are national heroes for their efforts to bring down Rafael Trujillo’s brutal ...

And I want to say this year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza ... to Make America Healthy Again." Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser on the Trump campaign ...

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A Texas judge says that a mother who was previously convicted in 2008 of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her ...

Melissa Lucio was found guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, who died in 2007. A judge now says she's innocent.

In a court filing, the judge said the conviction of Melissa Lucio, whose scheduled execution in 2022 was halted, should be overturned. The state’s highest criminal court will now decide.

"After 16 years on death row, it's time for the nightmare to end," Vanessa Potkin, one of Lucio's attorneys said.

Convicted cop-killer Alberto Alvarez showed little emotion in a packed Redwood City courtroom Monday morning as a judge handed him a death sentence for the Jan. 7, 2006, murder of East Palo Alto ...

The Texas judge who oversaw a trial that convicted a mother of killing her 2-year-old daughter and sentenced her to death now ...

A Texas death row inmate was deemed “actually innocent” by a judge who recommended her capital murder conviction be ...