Wayne County Jail inmates are getting playing cards that have photos and information about missing persons and unsolved homicide cases. The hope is that new leads will surface.
Many of the 102 first-time riders scheduled to participate in today’s 102-mile Ride for Missing Children said they’re excited about their initial experience participating in this important event.
Pundits, pollsters and political partisans of all stripes have been painting the campaign between Democratic presidential opponents Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton as a cross between a WWE grudge match and the reception after a wedding of a Hatfield and a McCoy.
Pollywogg Hollër owners Bill and Barb Castle describe it as an ecolodge resort, and the rustic bed and breakfast is surrounded by nature. Whether it’s the accommodations built using trees from the property, the ponds that offer plenty of frogs in the summer or the trails strewn with art from Alfred’s art students — nature plays a big role in the Hollër atmosphere.
Phil White has perfected his techniques to coax sweet corn out of the ground in April, but it’s still a gamble every year to be the first to have it on the farm stand.
Though the riders in the Ride for Missing children will travel 105 miles on Friday their mission is something greater: To raise awareness about missing and exploited children, to honor missing children, to instruct children on how to stay safe and to raise money for posters to help bring missing children home.
Hell hath no fury like a convert. Or so it seemed in the early ’90s, when the political career of Arizona Sen. John McCain almost went down in flames during the savings and loan scandal.
Simple objects touched by history can take on a life of their own. One such artifact, known as the Lincoln flag, which once cradled the head of a dying Abraham Lincoln, will be on exhibit in East Bloomfield, N.Y.
More than 600 volunteers helped create this year’s RIT Big Shot photograph at Schoen Place in Pittsford. The hundreds of volunteers helped create a nighttime photograph of a section of the Erie Canal in Pittsford.
Since 1963, the Herkimer County BOCES School of Practical Nursing has been preparing students for a career as a licensed practical nurse. With a recent upgrade in its campus at 295 W. Main St., Ilion, the program is well on its way to continuing that tradition.
State police officials said Friday they might release the name of a 15-year-old accused of trying to kill two family members if prosecutors charge the juvenile as an adult.