Is there a reprieve in the air for Gov. David Paterson? Staffers, not volunteers, helped Hiram Monserrate get on the ballot. The DN accuses AG Andrew Cuomo of...

Homeless, panhandlers not...

It's 50 meters from the office to the music room and back at Ridge Road Elementary School in North Haven. The perimeter of the gym is 60 meters. It's 130 meters around the blacktop area outside the school.

Apathy, confusion cited as...

Wants lawmakers to enact law to halt sales to...

Almost all corporations face organized criticism, whether over animal testing or a particular company's support for (or opposition to) gay rights. Wal-Mart has long attracted censure for labor practices and other issues. Usually these efforts are too scattered to make a long-term...

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Students who regularly eat lunch provided by their schools are more likely to be overweight and have higher levels of cholesterol than those who eat meals brought from home, a Michigan study...

The annual St. Patrick’s Day parade started in fine form about 11 a.m. Saturday. Hundreds lined both sides of Greenville Avenue near Park Lane to watch the floats go...

CONCORD, N.H.—Electronic cigarettes are readily available at mall kiosks and the Internet, come in flavors like tobacco, strawberry, chocolate and vanilla, and replace smoking with...

Significant hurdles remain in massive borrowing...

REPRESENTATIVE PETER Koutoujian said he was never an obese boy, but some people assumed so when he embarked on the lonely quest a decade ago to get sugary drinks and junk food out of schools across...

DERRICK Z. Jackson (“Want a Glock with your latte?’’ Op-ed, March 9) complains that some people exercise their Second Amendment rights, along with their rights under state law, by carrying legally owned guns into restaurants and coffee shops, thus violating the so-called sanctity of these...

In jurisdictions large and small, sales taxes have continued a steady climb. States and cities see them as a way to make up for budget...

Athena D. Merritt A group that is fighting Philadelphia’s proposed soda tax calling itself “Philly Jobs. Not Taxes” announced Friday that the Ceisler Jubelirer and Echo Group firms would be handling its media...

Praise for budget coverage Editor, The Times: As the regular legislative session comes to an end this week and we go into extra innings to try to solve the budget disaster, I’m writing to tip my hat to The Seattle Times for its stellar budget...

Bill moves to the House for a...

Comments: 0 | More Print The city Department of Education (DOE) may consider Doritos healthy for students but parents don’t. Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA) in School District 21 are creating their own rules for bake...

English literature scholars and historians have long known that football played a major role in Stephen Crane’s development of his Civil War novel, “The Red Badge of...

By now, David Wynett is used to not being the smartest guy in the room. That's OK with him. His company is loaded with brainiacs. The Atlantan is managing director of Mensa Process, a business consulting firm that taps the collective intelligence and creativity of thousands of Mensa members from around the.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The March 11 Senate passage of the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT Act), which addresses the long-standing convenience store industry concern of tax evasion via remote sellers of tobacco products, is a “major win” for retailers, according to NACS Senior Vice President of...