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New York State Speaker Sheldon Silver apologizes for secret settlement used to protect Vito Lopez. The voting for school budgets in New York begins. New York town judge will...
Across the North Country voters go to the polls to decide the fate of their local school districts, electing new school board members and approving or rejecting school...
New York's farms employ about 60,000 people and no one knows how many of those workers are here illegally. According to one estimate, 70 percent of the state's agricultural...
Vermont will become the 4th state in the nation to allow physician assisted suicide when Governor Peter Shumlin signs the end-of-life bill into law Monday afternoon.
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NEW YORK (AP) U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is proposing new legislation to ease the burden for students who have borrowed to pay for their education. The New York Democrat...
J.J. Abrams isn't the first guy to bait Star Trek fans by messing with the brand.
Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and outgoing acting Commissioner Steven Miller are being grilled. The IRS is under fire because some conservative groups' applications...
Read an exclusive excerpt of Lionel Shriver's latest, Big Brother. Shriver is no stranger to controversial topics, from school massacres to the American health care...
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Tim Cook will address reports that his company pays billions less than it should in U.S. taxes each year at a Tuesday hearing in Washington. According to a report by the...
Raised on the South Side, Manzarek brought Chicago sound to L.A.'s beaches with the trailblazing band. He died Monday at age 74.
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The reality, though, is that we’re...
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Brian Mann and...
Here’s some red meat for the “nanny state” folks out there. Nutrition educator and freelance food journalist, Kristin Wartman, argues in a New York Times...
Walk down the supermarket aisle, and the boxes almost scream out at you, “All Natural!” So, what does it mean to claim a product is “natural?” Not...
It was a newsy week in the world of agriculture, so here are seven good reads to keep you busy this weekend: The Farm Bill passed both the House and Senate Agriculture...
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Here’s the blurb, from a National Gallery webpage on Sakahàn:
This summer, the National Gallery of Canada is staging one of the most ambitious contemporary art...
William M. Fine passed away last week at the age of 86.
He was a magazine publisher, and advised the State Department on relationships with Northern Ireland.
He also had a...
A new Justice Department study finds that prison inmates in the US who are mentally ill face rates of sexual assault nearly ten times higher than other inmates.
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Yesterday, the Prison Policy Initiative released its report, “Please Deposit All of Your Money: Kickbacks, Rates, and Hidden Fees in the Jail Phone Industry.” It’s...
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We know the cliches: “Home is where the heart is;” “Home is where when you knock at the door, they have to let you in;” “Home is a haven in a heartless world;”...
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A group of musicians who love swing and big band music gather every week to practice. Todd Moe caught up with Jack Kelley's Little Big Band as they prepped for an evening of...
The St. Lawrence Country Arts council kicked off its inaugural community gallery project "Art walk" on Friday night in the villages of Canton and Potsdam. Around 20 local...
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