A mother was outside her home in Bakersfield, California, with her daughter late Thursday when the house caught fire. Four of her children were upstairs.Kristina Stratton ran into the two-story house ...

Johannesburg, South Africa — As ISIS militants laid siege to Mozambique's coastal city of Palma over the weekend, nearly 200 foreign workers holed up in a local hotel faced a terrifying choice: Stay ...

As a teenager in southeastern San Diego, Dulce Pelayo had a roof over her head. Then her mom died by suicide. Pelayo entered the foster care system and moved in with a relative. Yet that woman was ...

The shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead at a school in Texas is forcing parents and schools to once again confront how to talk to kids about violence. Experts have told The Times ...