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Attorney Ben Crump (from left) Tyre Nichols' mother, RowVaughn Wells, and stepfather, Rodney Wells, exit the courthouse in Memphis after five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in Nichols' death.

All 5 ex-Memphis officers plead not guilty in the beating death of Tyre Nichols

They were arraigned on charges of murder, assault and other felonies. Tyre Nichols died three days after officers beat him following a Jan. 7 traffic stop.

'Wild Dances' puts consequences of a long-ago, faraway conflict at center

By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.

New York homeowner Kevin Monahan, 65, has been charged with second-degree murder after fatally shooting Kaylin Gillis, 20.

A woman was fatally shot by a N.Y. homeowner after she went up the wrong driveway

The car carrying Kaylin Gillis, 20, was turning around after her friends realized they had made mistakenly gone to the wrong address. The 65-year-old homeowner fired at them from his porch.

Mihir Konkapaka is shown in this undated photo.

7th grader Mihir Konkapaka earns back-to-back county spelling bee titles

Seventh grader Mihir Konkapaka Thursday won back-to-back titles at the 53rd annual San Diego Union-Tribune Countywide Spelling Bee.

Odia Kaba works from home in Ypsilanti, Mich., Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Growing up in Ann Arbor, there was an expectation that Odia would attend the University of Michigan. When her application was deferred, she started at Eastern Michigan with plans to transfer to Ann Arbor her sophomore year. But she was getting daily texts from her sister, who attended U-M, describing the microaggressions she faced as a Black student on campus. Kaba stayed at Eastern Michigan and graduated with a degree in quantitative economics. Even though it's a mostly white campus, Kaba said she found pockets of diversity that helped make her comfortable.

As Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action, colleges see few other ways to diversity goals

After bans on affirmative action in states from California to Florida, colleges have tried a range of strategies to achieve a diverse student body.

San Diego researcher finds particulate air pollution may mask the true effect of global warming

Climate researchers say the cooling effect of air pollution may be underestimating the intensity of global warming.

The image from video released on Jan. 27, 2023, by the City of Memphis, shows Tyre Nichols during a brutal attack by five Memphis police officers on Jan. 7, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. Nichols died on Jan. 10. The five officers have since been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other offenses. (City of Memphis via AP)

Tyre Nichols' brutal beating by police shown on video

Video showing five Memphis officers beating a Black man has been made public. The release comes one day after the officers were charged with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols.

UC San Diego's Mandeville Art Gallery, shown in a Feb. 7, 2023 photo, will reopen on March 4 with a new exhibition of work by visual art faculty, "Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era."

After a rocky decade, UC San Diego's art gallery is back

Mandeville Art Gallery reopens on March 4 with "Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era," featuring UC San Diego faculty. The institution's first dedicated gallery director, Ceci Moss, curated the gallery.

Storm clouds are pictured over downtown San Diego, Jan. 25, 2021.

Average temperatures in San Diego below normal for past 5 months

In January 2022, the average temperature was 56.9 degrees. From 1991 to 2020, it was 58.4 degrees.

Stripped to the bones: Why a new NYC concert hall sounds so much better

The new David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, home of the New York Philharmonic, opens this week. And while the outside is the same, everything inside has changed.

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