Many Florida homeowners are familiar with the danger sinkholes pose. But some areas are more risky than others.

Ecuador's prison authority on Monday said 15 inmates at the Litoral prison in the city of Guayaquil were found dead between Thursday and Sunday.

This week we look at surges of violence in Haiti, Ecuador and Mexico, where struggles for territorial control are growing evermore intense.

Pieter Tritton was jailed in a notorious prison for nine years and witnessed things he has never been able to recover from ...

This eventually led to him becoming a drug dealer in during the 1990s, before he was finally caught and imprisoned, being freed several months later. "Dealing drugs is almost more addictive than ...

As the US doubles down on overt interventions, experts warn policymakers may be overlooking a key battlefield: prisons across the region.

QUITO, Ecuador -- Clashes that erupted among prisoners in one of Ecuador's most notorious prisons left 13 inmates dead, ...

At least 13 inmates were found dead Sunday at a southern Ecuadorian prison ravaged by violence in recent months, the country’s prison service SNAI announced on Monday. The bodies were found after an ...

Clashes that erupted among prisoners in one of Ecuador’s most notorious prisons have left 13 inmates dead. Authorities said ...

Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving for Morning Edition host A Martinez without his grandmother's bolones de verde. The traditional Ecuadorian breakfast dish of deep-fried balls of chopped plantains ...

A Texas A&M committee agreed that the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature ...

Turkey is prepared to contribute a few thousand troops to a U.S.-backed, Muslim-majority force in the Gaza Strip, according to Turkish officials familiar with the matter, despite Israeli opposition to ...