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On a cold and rainy day in Boston thousands gathered to finish what two bombs stole from them. A one-mile run traced the home-stretch of the Boston Marathon, giving...
As the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, outrage has been building on Capitol Hill and beyond over the military's failure to repair a system that has placed service...
Authorities said a Union Pacific train t-boned a Burlington Northern train. After a diesel fuel leak, one of the engines caught fire but firefighters were able to extinguish...
The Tigers' Sanchez has been here before. This is the fourth one-hitter of his career. It was also the third time the Twins' Joe Mauer broke a no-hitter in the 9th inning.
In our latest installment of the StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Lance Cpl. Travis Williams. In 2005, while serving in Iraq, Williams lost his 12-man...
The bus caught fire when the driver tried to switch from using gasoline to natural gas. The driver fled the scene.
Governor Andrew Cuomo and his cabinet are hitting the road to push his proposal to create tax-free zones for businesses that set up shop on or near public college campuses in...
Voters in the North Country sent a clear message to school districts that tried to exceed the state property tax cap. The answer was a resounding No. The vast majority of...
Fresh off a deal with the Oneida Nation, Governor Cuomo stood with chiefs of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe this afternoon to announced a deal to resolve gaming issues that...
As lawmakers in Washington debate the immigration reform bill released last month, farmers in New York State are hoping to find enough workers to fully staff their...
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...
Over the last week the Oneida Nation and the Mohawk Native have reached settlements with the Cuomo administration giving them exclusive rights to operate casinos in their...
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...
State officials announced yesterday that they'll begin public hearings in June to decide how the former Finch Pruyn timberlands will be managed, now that they've been added...
Since 2006, honey bees have been abandoning seemingly healthy hives in large numbers.That's raised the alarm worldwide among beekeepers, farmers and researchers. Honey...
One of the weird muddles complicating the scandals swirling around the Obama administration is that the accusations –broadly speaking — stem from two...
First some disclosure.  I was maybe the worst Boy Scout in the history of scouting.  Not because I was gay. But because I wasn’t — as a kid – particularly...
Update Friday 8 am.  The boil water advisory was lifted late Thursday evening after tests showed no dangerous bacteria, such as E. coli, in the affected water. Here’s...
There are all kinds of dating sites for all kinds of people out there. Recently, there’s been a surge in dating sites for farmers and other rural people. According to...
There’s been a media hub-bub since yesterday about the so-called dark side of NY’s Greek yogurt boom. A report by Justin Elliott in Modern Farmer explains that...
We wrote about Potsdam grower Daniel Martin’s plans for a new style of farmstand a few months ago, and now it’s up and a running.  Martin’s market isn’t at the...
  Here’s a little “local” Ottawa story that even showed up Tuesday on NPR as a quick/funny news bit: fed up by hungry Canada geese causing vexing...
With local land taxes skyrocketing, today’s NY Times article about corporate pass-through tax restructuring raised my blood pressure. But then I thought, heck, just...
Monday is Memorial Day, and this weekend is the traditional beginning of the summer vacation season. It might be time to open camp for the season, to put in the boat, to have...
Kanye West’s performance on last week’s Saturday Night Live (video below) embraced the idea that America’s huge prison system has turned a generation of...
One of the enduring realities of life behind bars is that people on the inside often want and need support from people on the outside. Sometimes that yearning – which...
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...
Sure, we may still see some frosty nights, but the days have lengthened and the end of the school season is within sight. When I was growing up–regardless of where I...
Brian Mann: Monday 1:47 pm So let’s say you’re someone who discovered by way of “Game of Thrones” that modern fantasy is actually a grown-up genre,...
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;”...
Almost twenty years ago, Christine Jerome and her husband paddled a weeks-long canoe route through the Adirondacks. They followed the path of a nineteenth-century writer and...
Todd Moe talks with the local author of a new book about healthier eating and taking care of our bodies. Paula Youmell is a nurse and certified holistic health counselor....
"Miss Caledonia" is playing in the Studio at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa through May 25. Melody A. Johnson runs the gamut from farmer girl to beauty pageant...
The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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The British duo struggled, broke through and got by with a little help from its friends.

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