NEW YORK — Baseball players fired the opening salvo Wednesday in what is expected to be long and contentious labor negotiations, asking for expanded free agency and salary arbitration rights along with almost doubling the major league minimum and increasing the money high-revenue teams share ...

The late-season move by the Vegas Golden Knights to fire coach Bruce Cassidy and bring on John Tortorella might have seemed to be out of desperation on the surface. It comes with a history of some success. Tortorella has guided the Golden Knights to the Stanley Cup Final after completing a ...

We've been having a debate about "book bans" in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not. The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the ...

Caitlyn Nowicki of the town of Poland was crowned Miss Kennedy 2026 in a Queen's Tea held at the Kennedy Firehall recently. Caitlyn is graduating from Falconer Central School this year. She attends the BOCES program for construction. Nowicki will represent the town of Poland in the Falconer ...

Back in 1969, President Richard Nixon warned Congress against the rapid growth of the American population: "When future generations evaluate the record of our time, one of the most important factors in their judgment will be the way in which we responded to population growth." If the American ...

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