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A San Francisco dealer quadrupled his income by moving to New York after California legalized medical marijuana.
The sergeant has been accused of secretly videotaping at least a dozen female cadets, sometimes when they were showering. The New York Times report follows a series of accounts in recent weeks about alleged sexual assaults within the...
The incident occurred Wednesday when the suspects attacked the man near a London military barracks.
The trip comes as relations between Beijing and Pyongyang have soured over North Korea's nuclear program and the recent seizure of Chinese fisherman.
The IRS bureaucrat showed up long enough at a House hearing into the scandal engulfing her agency to declare her innocence and her constitutional right to say no more.
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All Before Five: 12/27/07
Dec 27, 2007 — Military officials confirm the capture of two men suspected of the May kidnapping of three Fort Drum soldiers south of Baghdad... Recent snows are making regional ski resorts happy... And a Heard Up North of Dickensian coincidence. Go to full article
Open Studio (full program)
Dec 27, 2007 — NCPR's monthly arts program is on the road for the holidays, airing live from the St. Lawrence County Arts Council in Potsdam. The theme is "tying up loose ends," and we celebrate the coming new year with music, art and words. Featuring music for the season with the some down-home old-time folk music with Stringfolks, knot art from Tim Whitten, a loose ends poem from Dale Hobson, and celebrating 10 years of the Adirondack Artists Guild in Saranac Lake. Go to full article
Giving Voice: Loose Ends
Dec 27, 2007 — Dale Hobson's New Year's resolutions are all "continuing resolutions." Here is a new poem for the New Year: Loose Ends 2007. Go to full article
Snow brings ski biz alive
Dec 27, 2007 — Last winter, ski resorts in New York and Vermont were hammered by rain and unseasonably warm temperatures that lasted well into January. What a difference a year makes. ... Go to full article
Home deconstruction versus demolition
Dec 27, 2007 — Every year, across the country millions of dollars are spent tearing down condemned houses and hauling away tons of debris to landfills. But progressive engineers and... Go to full article
Heard Up North: Running out of gas (in good company)
Dec 27, 2007 — Our next story takes place on a dark, Halloween night. David Sommerstein was coming back from an assignment at Fort Drum. Everything was going great until the village of... Go to full article
Natural Selections: Nuthatches
Dec 27, 2007 — Northeastern forests are one of the few places where the white-breasted and red-breasted nuthatch share the same habitat. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about these... Go to full article
All Before Five: 12/26/07
Dec 26, 2007 — A Fort Drum soldier is killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq... A state task force finds New York's 49 deck-truss bridges are safe... Governor Spitzer says he's optimistic about... Go to full article
Spitzer looks ahead after rocky first year
Dec 26, 2007 — Governor Eliot Spitzer is hard at work on his State of the State message and budget presentation, which are due shortly after the holidays. The governor says he's looking... Go to full article
An art and a career, one letter at a time
Dec 26, 2007 — It's the day after Christmas and that means sitting down to write lots and lots of thank-you cards. For calligrapher Gail Brill, that kind of chore is the wellspring of her... Go to full article
People: Peter Hinton on "Macbeth" at the NAC
Dec 26, 2007 — Referred to by some as the ruby in the crown of Shakespearean tragedy, Macbeth is a vivid portrait of ambition and betrayal. A new production of the classic opens next... Go to full article
