When former attorney and civil rights pioneer Rita Geier received an honorary doctorate degree last week from the University of Tennessee, it was an odd sort of full-circle moment: The award ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA — The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara has awarded college scholarships totaling more than $7.7 ...

Under the ceasefire, the Iran-backed Hezbollah was to pull back its fighters north of Lebanon’s Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure to its south. Israel was to ...

Under the ceasefire, the Iran-backed Hezbollah was to pull back its fighters north of Lebanon's Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure to its south. Israel was to ...

A group of schoolchildren and several adults are safe after their bus caught fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains Friday morning. According to the Santa Clara County Fire Department, the bus had ...

Israel is ready to end the war in Gaza “tomorrow” in exchange for the release of hostages and an end to Hamas’s presence in Gaza, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Thursday after meeting ...

(KRON) — More than two dozen children were evacuated from a bus in the Santa Cruz Mountains before it went up in flames Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. Southbound ...

A tour bus caught fire Friday morning on Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains, prompting passengers to evacuate the vehicle, according to Santa Clara County fire officials. Just after 9 a.m ...

AUSTIN, Texas — An Austin housing authority is preparing to redevelop Santa Rita Courts, an East Austin public housing complex that was built 85 years ago, in a move residents and officials say ...

Sky News host Rita Panahi has called out the “leftie losers” as she reviewed some of the biggest meltdowns from across the globe from the likes of Joe Biden, Dylan Mulvaney, and the “awful ...

15 women will graduate from a hair-braiding program at Santa Rita Jail; 15 men also graduated from a construction program. The two vocational programs signify a shift at Santa Rita to help people ...