Even in death, your best friend
Funeral homes increasingly using dogs to comfort mourners
DATE: Jun 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business
JIM FITZGERALD
Even clowns have rules
Amateurs learn how to entertain at Thanksgiving Day Parade
DATE: Nov 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Gays scoff at New York’s holiday-parade decision
NEW YORK – A decision by organizers of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade to allow one gay organization to march is a disappointment after decades of fighting by gay groups for full partici...
DATE: Sep 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nonprofits help the dying make farewell videos
SCARSDALE, N.Y. – Carolyn Ngbokoli doesn’t remember the sound of her mother’s voice. She was just 19 when her mom died, and no recordings were left.
Now Ngbokoli, 37, faces the po...
DATE: Jul 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family
School turns to digital books
Online content offers more than traditional textbooks
DATE: Jan 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education
Thomas Paine writings housed at N.Y. college
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – He helped inspire the American Revolution, but Thomas Paine suffered a broad range of indignities afterward: Political cartoonists lampooned him, he was denied the righ...
DATE: Sep 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
N.Y. village tries to control deer
It’s giving animals birth control
DATE: Aug 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
