A 19-year-old Alaska man has pleaded "guilty, but mentally ill" in the stabbing deaths of his grandparents, aunt and her companion. Jason Abbott of Sitka pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of first-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors. Under the deal, prosecutors consolidated charges in ...

When I first met John Abbott 20 years ago he told me a story: as a young teacher at the prestigious Manchester Grammar School he had led several expeditions of boys to study agriculture in rural pre-revolutionary Iran. After a week the village headman felt he knew John well enough to ask him a difficult question: 'These young men, ' he ...