The federal government has signed a deal with the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in ...

Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take on its ice cream ...

After 90 days of non-payment, student loan servicers report delinquent, or past-due, accounts to major credit bureaus, which ...