Two men salute while participating in New York City’s Veterans Day parade Nov. 11. Republican and Democratic lawmakers in some two dozen states have introduced bills aimed at restricting or legalizing the practice of for-profit companies charging veterans fees for help filing disability claims — an issue that often has pitted veterans against one another. … Read more
MASSILLON ‒ Piece by piece, Samantha Kaufman meticulously attached another piece of stainless steel to the massive exoskeleton inside her classroom at R.G. Drage. She is among a group of senior welding students helping to bring a one-of-a-kind sculpture to Fairless Local Schools. The welding students, along with help from Canton artist Patrick Buckohr, are … Read more
MASSILLON ‒ Piece by piece, Samantha Kaufman meticulously attached another piece of stainless steel to the massive exoskeleton inside her classroom at R.G. Drage. She is among a group of senior welding students helping to bring a one-of-a-kind sculpture to Fairless Local Schools. The welding students, along with help from Canton artist Patrick Buckohr, are … Read more
Absentee ballot being handled by an employee of the Wake County Board of Elections. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) North Carolina Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin was fully within his rights in recent weeks to request a pair of recounts in his razor-thin loss to incumbent Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs. While … Read more
Boeing workers gather on a picket line near the entrance to a Boeing facility on Oct. 24 in Seattle. The strike ended with a deal in November. Those workers returning to the job factored into growth reported in the latest labor report. (David Ryder/Getty Images) The economy added 227,000 jobs in November, making for a … Read more
A cup of pencils sit on top of a classroom desk in Virginia (Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury) After a year-long review of the Virginia Department of Education, which failed to meet federal requirements to support students with disabilities, the federal government’s watchdog for special education programs wrote in a letter that all of its findings and … Read more
An “architecturally distinguished” former church campus in Corning has been nominated for the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church Complex on Corning’s Northside was recommended by the New York State Board for Historic Preservation, the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced. The recommendations can … Read more
It’s the holiday season, you have down time, and you want to get out of the house for the day, maybe catch some olde time festive spirit. We have some suggestions that will (likely) make your season merry and bright. You can take a night coach tour of the Christmas lights of Bethlehem, Pa., or … Read more
It’s the holiday season, you have down time, and you want to get out of the house for the day, maybe catch some olde time festive spirit. We have some suggestions that will (likely) make your season merry and bright. You can take a night coach tour of the Christmas lights of Bethlehem, Pa., or … Read more
H. Furlong Baldwin, whose disciplined and cautious management of the old Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co. kept his bank steady and independent, died of complications of multiple myeloma Saturday at his home, Eyre Hall, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. He was 92. “He led a bank you could trust,” said former U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski. … Read more