Halloween is only days away, and parents and children are flooding stores in search of the best costumes and the scariest monster, vampire and ghoul decorations. But the author of new children's book ...

The girls of St. Barnabas had to scramble to find a new high school. All Hallows rescued them, opening its doors to girls for the first time in 115 years. Then, in January, a familiar email arrived.

All Hallows, a Catholic high school of 320 students at East 164th Street and Grand Concourse, is on the financial brink, citing a decline in charitable giving, local population loss and increased ...