I have read many books on the changing tide of the public's relationship with vaccines, particularly around childhood ...

Disability rights groups had followed the case closely, warning that arguments by the school district could threaten broader ...

Fifty years ago this month, the legacy of Willowbrook State School sparked the National Disability Rights Movement. During the 1970s, journalists exposed the horrific treatment of children and ...

I recall vividly Robert Kennedy’s “expose” of Willowbrook State School. I do want to comment that all was not negative there. My late husband, the Rev. John R. Heller, was chaplain there ...

Bernard knows of what he speaks. He lived – if you can call it that – in Willowbrook State School when it was exactly what Bobby Kennedy called it ... a snake pit. Bernard was placed in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week sided with a Minnesota family in providing an even playing field for disability lawsuits ...

visit the state department's website. BELLE VERNON, Pa. — A fourth case of whooping cough has been reported at Rostraver Elementary School in the Belle Vernon Area district in Westmoreland County.

Both the state’s charter school board and the nonprofit created by the Catholic dioceses asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in. The court consolidated the two appeals into one case although ...

The prosecution revealed new details about the assault at a therapeutic school in Middleboro. Plus victim impact statement ...

Five decades removed from the decree that brought to an end the horrors of the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, and the war to ensure the rights of all developmentally disabled Americans ...

The way school officials handled his case also exposes glaring contradictions in two recent state laws that aim to ...

WILLIAMSPORT — A former Penn State football player has ... Barber had accused the former Texas high school star defensive back with manufacturing the entire case to justify the NCAA giving ...