DANNEMORA — From the beginning, the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility by David Sweat and Richard Matt has been described “like something out of a movie.” The story was ripe for moviemakers and their documentaries as well as for fictional versions of the story. The escape, ...
NEW YORK — Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats. Spaghetti, Macaroni and ...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up. The spectacular flameout Thursday peaked as Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts and Musk claimed that Trump’s ...
LOWVILLE — New York state is pushing more than $21 million in grant money out to over 100 dairy farms statewide, part of a long-term push to enhance and expand the state’s upstate milk and milk product industry. On Monday at Glory Days dairy farm in Lowville, state Agriculture ...
ALBANY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced the first state record fish of the year. On May 3, while shorefishing with his son, Dylan Kampnich of Dexter reeled in a 37-pound 9-ounce channel catfish from Black River Bay in Jefferson County. Mr. Kampnich’s ...
MASSAPEQUA — New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk losing federal funding, President Donald Trump’s top education official said Friday. U.S. Secretary of ...