Eight current and former students at Bowling Green State University are facing criminal charges in the death of a 20-year-old student. Stone Foltz died in March after an off-campus initiation ritual ...

BRIDGEPORT >> Initiation rituals may have fallen out of favor with many organizations, but at Bridgeport Elks Lodge 714, the ritual that inducts a new member is a sacred rite that keeps members ...

SCRANTON — Three people are facing charges after a juvenile was injured during a Crips gang initiation, law enforcement officers say. James Hankins, 33, of 1371 N. Washington Ave., Scranton; Brittany ...

CAÑON CITY, Colorado — District administrators in Cañon City suspended the varsity football team for two games following a criminal investigation into a student initiation ritual. In a joint statement ...

InvestigateTV - Every year, for the past six decades, at least one student has died or suffered life-altering injuries in a hazing incident. The majority were college students pledging a fraternity.

Authorities are investigating more hazing allegations at a Southland high school. School officials said they received a tip from a parent regarding activities involving the Calabasas High School ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Characterized by slit eyes, which appear as convex ...

It was a rite of extremely dangerous passages. The youth soccer players trapped inside a flooded network of caves in northern Thailand went into the subterranean system as part of an “initiation” ...

This article examines the use of the initiation ritual of primitive people, described in the works of Mircea Eliade, as a model for counseling cancer patients, giving both meaning and structure to the ...