Officials determined the remains were of human origin and this isolated, newly uncovered incident originated years ago.

In the mid to late 1800s, one man's courage and dedication to freedom changed lives and shaped history. John W. Jones was an escaped slave from Virginia who escaped, found refuge, and became a key fig ...

Since lawmakers approved dropping the minimum age requirement from 21 to 18, over 200 workers have been hired in the age ...

These figures in Black history shaped the pursuit of racial justice in New York, and their work brought them to the ...

asked Assemblyman Philip Palmesano at the same hearing. Assemblyman Palmesano is from Corning with Elmira Prison in his district. “We need to pay more and have better benefits and that will help ...

or they had family members already in camps or prison, who might never be released. The very few who agreed to speak openly did so because their family had already left China or they were desperately ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as “The Walls”, was originally built back in 1835 and ran as a prison camp for many years ... These are Elmira, built in 1876, Clinton, built in 1845 ...

A fire ripped through a 133-year-old vacant church in downtown Elmira last week, destroying the historic structure. Local fire and emergency crews put out a massive fire in the former First Baptist ...

Striking correction officers and their supporters stage a protest along Route 9W near Greene Correctional Facility state prison on Wednesday in Coxsackie. The strike began at two prisons in ...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent away from their homes and businesses and locked up in incarceration camps. When they returned home in 1945, they often found ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration last week proposed closing Rockview state prison and Quehanna Boot Camp, a move with the potential to upend thousands of lives in Centre County. From the ...

But they are history: Some of the last remaining structures of Camp Papago Park — a prisoners of war camp in east Phoenix near McDowell Road and North 64th Street that once housed up to 3,000 ...