Robbie Brown New York Times

A small but quickly growing number of chronically ill students now attend school virtually with what are called "remote presence robots".

As four inches of powdery snow coated the city, aides to Georgia's new governor debated until the last minute whether to cancel Monday's black-tie inauguration ball and ask the Motown cover band to pack up their instruments. Then, as roads grew slicker, the event's planners made a plea to constituents seldom heard in politics: Stay home. Skip the i...

A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page. He has 91 digital "friends." Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.He does it all on a Samsung smartphone, which he says he bought from a guard. And he used the same phone to help org...

James Bonard Fowler is 77 now, but in 1965 he was a young Alabama state trooper facing the rising tide of the civil rights movement.On Monday, at the Perry County Courthouse in Alabama, that past came calling: Mr. Fowler, who is white, pleaded guilty to the 1965 killing of a black man whose death led to the historic civil rights marches from Selma ...

That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it. The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying "I Am a Man" signs in Memphis? His. He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the murder of Emmett Till, and he was there in Room 306 of the Lo...

A small but quickly growing number of chronically ill students now attend school virtually with what are called "remote presence robots".

As four inches of powdery snow coated the city, aides to Georgia's new governor debated until the last minute whether to cancel Monday's black-tie inauguration ball and ask the Motown cover band to pack up their instruments. Then, as roads grew slicker, the event's planners made a plea to constituents seldom heard in politics: Stay home. Skip the i...

A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page. He has 91 digital "friends." Like many of his fellow inmates, he plays the online games FarmVille and Street Wars.He does it all on a Samsung smartphone, which he says he bought from a guard. And he used the same phone to help org...

James Bonard Fowler is 77 now, but in 1965 he was a young Alabama state trooper facing the rising tide of the civil rights movement.On Monday, at the Perry County Courthouse in Alabama, that past came calling: Mr. Fowler, who is white, pleaded guilty to the 1965 killing of a black man whose death led to the historic civil rights marches from Selma ...

That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it. The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying "I Am a Man" signs in Memphis? His. He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the murder of Emmett Till, and he was there in Room 306 of the Lo...