Conn maintains that diligent inspections were conducted by USDA and other internal oversight committees. Compare Conn's claim with the fact that the USDA inspector at the time, Dr. Isis Johnson Brown,having quit in frustration after her supervisors at the

In response to the Nov. 3 Argus Leader editorial "Parole Board short on Native voices," the first paragraph said South Dakota has a Native American population of 8 percent, but 25 percent of the men incarcerated in our prisons are Native Americans. The...

Ryan's cell phone clanged as a clerk tallied his office supplies in Staples on Northern Blvd. The word HOME scorched in his caller ID window. Whenever he was out at a store, since the day he first got a cell phone, that word exploded to life on his...

The Housing Authority has outlawed pit bulls as pets in its buildings. Carmen Delgado, 65, was walking into her building in the Eastchester Gardens housing project in December, her arms filled with groceries, when her neighbor's pit bull, King....

A woman who gave birth to a stillborn baby whose body was then mistakenly discarded with the trash at a local hospital filed a lawsuit Monday, a report in the Jersey Journal said.

An entrepreneur and a journalist have teamed to bring the Newtown Pippin apple - a Colonial-era delicacy - back to its Queens roots. But David Kistner of Bayside and Eric Baard of Long Island City need a little help from Elmhurst residents.

ON MILD spring mornings, Sunnyside residents Eileen and Matthew Walsh can be found digging up weeds at a small community garden not far from their home. The garden, which opened two years ago this June, is the only discernible patch of green amid a...

Ending a case that had dragged on for nearly six years, the principal of the former Bayley Ellard High School in Madison was sentenced today to four years of probation for inappropriately touching a 17-year-old male student and, in a separate incident,...

Wooded land in South Brunswick that was slated to be cleared for construction of 54 townhouses will now be preserved, with Middlesex County planning to buy the 22-acre lot from the developer.

Citing financial and environmental reasons, Gov. David A. Paterson signed an executive order on Tuesday directing state agencies to phase out the purchase and use of bottled water at government workplaces.