A Calverton property owner charged with improperly storing compost at a 45-acre farm agreed to pay a $5,630 fine after pleading guilty to Riverhead Town code violations, town officials said. Riverhead ...

Some 4,000 Filipinos marched in the capital Manila, denouncing "gross human rights violations and international humanitarian law abuses” by the government in the Catholic-majority nation. The marchers ...

When completing math problems, students often have to show their work. It’s a method teachers use to catch errors in thinking, to make sure students are grasping mathematical concepts correctly. New ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

An outage that took down markets operated by CME Group Inc. for more than 10 hours at the end of last week was caused by human error at a data center owned by ...

An Airbus A340 that refuses to lift off the runway and a Boeing 747 that cannot stop in a storm—both events show how small misjudgments can escalate into life-threatening situations. Featuring two ...

A new report by Amnesty International says that immigrants held at the ICE jail in Florida known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a two-foot-high metal cage and left outside without water ...