A woman who claims her mentally disabled son was forced to fight for the entertainment of the staff at a state-run residence filed a lawsuit Thursday against the state. ...more

March 26, 2009

The State Department will not renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May, a senior U.S. official said Friday. ...more

January 30, 2009

A young man with a gruesomely painted black-and-white face went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbing two babies and a female worker to death and seriously wounding 12 others. ...more

January 24, 2009

Monday will be the second anniversary of a tragic time in our county. It's the date State Trooper Sgt. Nick Sottile was shot down along U.S. 27 north of Lake Placid. It's a date that those who knew Sottile, and those who did not, were in shock at the brutality that happened that afternoon against a man known and loved in his community. ...more

January 11, 2009

A single-file line of schoolchildren walked past a military checkpoint as a bomb-loaded truck veered toward them and exploded, ending the lives of 14 young Afghans in a heartbreaking flash captured by a U.S. military security camera. ...more

December 29, 2008

"The Wettest County in the World," by Matt Bondurant (Scribner, $25) ...more

December 28, 2008

More battered women and people in desperate financial straits are seeking aid from local social service agencies as the economy nosedives, local experts say. ...more

October 21, 2008

"Sniper One," by Sgt. Dan Mills (St. Martin's Press, $27) ...more

September 14, 2008

The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a face-lift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes - but not the abuses committed there by U.S. guards. ...more

September 6, 2008

After witnessing several weeks of the press micro dissect and parse every utterance of Barack Obama, I wonder why there has been no critical examination of the qualifications and policies of John McCain? ...more

August 14, 2008