The trial of a New Jersey man arrested last year in a highly controversial child sex sting operation that involved Suffolk police, a national TV show and Miss America, began Friday -- with the defendant's attorney describing his client as a victim of a television ratings promotion.
Town council has said yes to the Region's GreenCart program for Milton but no to letting the Region have full jurisdiction over waste collection decisions.
HAYWARD-- Skiing in near-perfect conditions, Yuri Kozlov, Russia, and Kelly Skillicorn, Winona, Minn., skied to victory during the 53-kilometer classic American Birkebeiner, finishing on Main Street in Hayward.
The attacks on Barack Obama's middle name have begun, but the likely Democratic nominee joins a long line of famous Americans with Semitic names, from Benjamin Franklin to Omar Bradley.
Belmond's Culture Study Club has pledged to donate $1,000 over the next three years to the Belmond-Klemme school building project. The donation will go to the new elementary school.
Democrats went for Al Franken at the Hubbard County DFL convention Sunday and learned a candidate will ask their help to unseat the incumbent state representative from Dist. 4B.