MEXICO CITY — The government says it will provide university scholarships and free medical care to the children who survived a day-care center fire that killed 49 kids a year ago. It says it will also provide free …

Gunmen stormed a party in northern Mexico on Sunday and massacred 17 people, authorities said. The gunmen arrived at the party in Torreon in several cars and opened fire without saying a word, the Coahuila state Attorney …

READY, set, eat. It’s time for University City Dining Days, a neighborhood feasting promotion that offers discounted three-course meals at favorite West Philly restaurants today through July 29. The food fest, started by …

The coal-fired plant used for heating and cooling Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana is at the end of its useful life. Looking at building a new coal plant to today’s standards revealed that costs are comparable …

What is Open Letter? It’s a publishing house that publishes 10 books a year translated from other languages into English and promotes and sells them throughout the country. As director, my main job is to help acquire the …

The Rev. Robert Barron : Priest and theology professor, University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein and author of Word on Fire I grant, of course, that the BP oil-leak in the Gulf of Mexico has been an environmental …

QUERETARO, Mexico — When the little girl saw the children move into the house nearby, she was excited. “My daughter said, ‘Oh, Mommy, I’m going to have neighbors to play with!’” her mother recalled. But they never saw …

July 2 (Bloomberg) — Mexico’s largest opposition party may broaden its control of state governments in this weekend’s election as mounting drug-related violence and the killing of a top candidate threatens to reduce …

Eric Hoffmayer, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory via AP A giant whale shark swims past a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, southwest of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site. Research …

BP’s massive oil spill became the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday based on the highest of the federal government’s estimates, an ominous record that underscores the oil giant’s dire need to halt the gusher …