The long-deserted Medfield State Hospital makes for a haunting site, inspiring filmmakers for years with its dark, shadowy ...

Some locals claim an old insane asylum in Albuquerque's North Valley is haunted, and neighbors say its a big problem. Now Bernalillo County has bought the property and big changes are coming soon.

The old Salem County Insane Asylum has been named to the list of the state's most endangered historic places.

The imposing cluster of Victorian-era buildings known as the Ridges, set atop a hill across from Ohio University's Athens campus, long has been noted for a colorful past. Now, it appears to have a ...

The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition.

Back then it was OK to use terms like "insane asylum" and "feeble-minded"...can't do that nowadays. Here's a look at an old ...

Never in Latin American history had the tradition of diplomatic asylum been so heavily used or so flagrantly abused. With the collapse of Jacobo Arbenz' Communist-manned government, about 900 ...

Advocates in Philadelphia call for release of asylum seeker detained by ICE Carrying signs that said, "No hate, no fear," protestors gathered outside the federal detention center on Arch Street in ...

BARTONVILLE, Ill. | Many probably would look to renew their wedding vows in a holy place, but there is nothing holy-looking about the building once known as the Illinois Asylum ...

Friends smuggled him out of the State and he came to Cleveland, his old home. He was sent to Elgin Asylum when he became ill in Chicago. SPORTS FOR CHARITY.

The US and Canada have struck a deal on changes to a decades-old asylum agreement that would restrict certain migrants from seeking protections in Canada, two Canadian officials told CNN, marking ...