A WAR OF LETTERS Wednesday, April 16

The city of Jacksonville and the feds have it out over allegation of racism at the Fire Department

WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS Wednesday, April 16

MOCA shows off the best of The New York Times Magazine’s photography collection – and that’s saying something

THE ENDLESS CYCLE Wednesday, April 16

Kids learn how to bully from adults. If you want to stop the problem, start there

HORNY HUNTING Wednesday, April 16

The billion-dollar deer-farming industry in America produces generations of bucks growing progressively larger antler racks mainly for bragging rights by so-called "hunters" who pay big bucks (pun intended) to kill them in fenced-in fields so they …

CRAPPY DUNKS Wednesday, April 16

NOTW has chronicled the sad saga of India's holy but severely polluted Ganges River, on which millions of Hindus are dependent — through hands-on worship — for worldly success and salvation. Now, recent reports reveal the second-holiest river, …

NEVER GETS OLD Wednesday, April 16

In February, Dayton, Ohio, bus driver Rickey Wagoner, 49, survived a three-bullet shooting that police said was probably a gang initiation randomly targeting him as he worked on his bus' engine. A police sergeant told the Dayton Daily News Wagoner …

TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE Wednesday, April 16

The most recent "monument" offered by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is its proposed 10-foot tombstone along U.S. 129 in Gainesville, Ga., to honor the "several" chickens killed when a truck overturned in January. No humans were hurt in …

BARKING UNDER OATH Wednesday, April 16

Allowing dogs as "witnesses" in court cases in France has become "something of a recent trend," reported European news site The Local Paris edition in April. Tango, a 9-year-old Labrador retriever, took the witness stand in Tours so the judge could …

ZERO TOLERANCE Wednesday, April 16

Another questionable school suspension was decreed in March in Virginia Beach, when a sixth-grader who'd prevented a classmate from intentionally harming himself was punished for her altruism. Adrionna Harris had convinced a boy to hand over a razor …

CHILD BRIDE Wednesday, April 16

Ms. Fatima Mangre, 8, was granted a divorce from her husband, Arjun Bakridi, 14, in Uttar Pradesh state in November, becoming the youngest divorcee in India's recorded history. Bakridi, then age 10, had married Mangre, then age 4, but his father …