The bullying by classmates and taunts of "homo" only got worse after Jacob began dyeing his hair and wearing eyeliner in eighth grade. One student scrawled "I hope you die" on his shoe, he said; another drew a pocket knife on him. Jacob's grades dropped, and he missed school from fear. His father tried repeatedly to get school officials ...

A Brooklyn hospital where a patient died in a waiting room will undergo improvements mandated by a consent decree and five years of court monitoring to end years of neglect and overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, advocates for the mentally ill who had filed a lawsuit said Friday. The settlement and court order called for monitoring by the U.S. Department ...

The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling for the state attorney general to investigate the weekend fire that killed four residents at a group home in the southern Adirondacks. The NYCLU is questioning whether there was adequate staffing at the state-run Riverview Individual Residential Alternative ...