AUSTIN, Texas — Federal funding for Humanities Texas, the state’s humanities council, has been terminated, leaving the Austin-based nonprofit struggling to secure financial support. The ...

Seventeen-year-old Victor Perez, who also has cerebral palsy, remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after having nine bullets removed from his body and having his leg amputated ...

POCATELLO, Idaho -- Idaho police officers opened fire from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after exiting their patrol cars and critically wounded a teenage boy - described by his family as ...

Longtime Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel and former MLB player Tony Blanco are among those who died following a roof collapse at a nightclub Tuesday in the capital of the Dominican ...

Fans and countrymen on Thursday shared their remembrances of Dominican Republic music icon Rubby Pérez, who was among the scores of people killed this week after the roof at the Jet Set club in ...

LOMPOC, Calif. - A new option for affordable housing in Lompoc cut the ribbon this morning. The Housing Authority of Santa Barbara County, or HASBARCO, has been helping those in need for 84 years ...

The Dominican community in Paterson, the largest in the state, prayed and thought of happier times with Perez, who -- like in New York City -- regularly performed in the area, most recently in ...

Rubby Pérez, the merengue singer who rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the Wilfrido Vargas Orchestra, has died following a tragic accident at the Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic ...

Famed Dominican merengue singer Rubby Pérez and former Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel are among the confirmed dead after the roof collapsed at a Dominican nightclub Tuesday while ...

Perez Hilton has a new obsession — and it’s got Hollywood’s elite shedding pounds faster than you can say “paparazzi.” Since hitting the scene, GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. LOMPOC, CA – Lompoc Unified School District (LUSD), in collaboration with the United Boys and Girls Club (UBGC) of Santa ...