Saturday, November 16, 2024

Death of 9 nuns highlights toll of coronavirus in convents

LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Through the month of December, mixed in with joyful Christmas messages, death announcements filled the Facebook page of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as a coronavirus outbreak took its toll in a residence for retired and infirm nuns.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Death of 9 nuns highlights toll of coronavirus in convents

LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Through the month of December, mixed in with joyful Christmas messages, death announcements filled the Facebook page of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as a coronavirus outbreak took its toll in a residence for retired and infirm nuns.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Death of 9 nuns highlights toll of coronavirus in convents

LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Through the month of December, mixed in with joyful Christmas messages, death announcements filled the Facebook page of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as a coronavirus outbreak took its toll in a residence for retired and infirm nuns.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Dogs ease pandemic isolation for nursing home residents

Eileen Nagle sees her family in video chats and drive-by visits, but that hasn't made up for the lack of warm hugs in the nine months since the pandemic led her nursing home to shut its doors to visitors.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Dogs ease pandemic isolation for nursing home residents

Eileen Nagle sees her family in video chats and drive-by visits, but that hasn't made up for the lack of warm hugs in the nine months since the pandemic led her nursing home to shut its doors to visitors.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Dogs ease pandemic isolation for nursing home residents

Eileen Nagle sees her family in video chats and drive-by visits, but that hasn't made up for the lack of warm hugs in the nine months since the pandemic led her nursing home to shut its doors to visitors.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Dogs ease pandemic isolation for nursing home residents

Eileen Nagle sees her family in video chats and drive-by visits, but that hasn't made up for the lack of warm hugs in the nine months since the pandemic led her nursing home to shut its doors to visitors.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

'Unbelievable' snowfall blankets parts of the Northeast

GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The Northeast’s first whopper snowstorm of the season buried parts of upstate New York under more than 3 feet (1 meter) of snow, broke records in cities and towns across the region, and left plow drivers struggling to clear the roads as snow piled up at …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Gunman shot by police at NYC cathedral Christmas concert

NEW YORK (AP) — A man was fatally shot by police on the steps of a landmark New York City cathedral Sunday after he began firing two semiautomatic handguns at the end of a Christmas choral concert, police said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Gunman shot by police at NYC cathedral Christmas concert

NEW YORK (AP) — A man was fatally shot by police on the steps of a landmark New York City cathedral Sunday after he began firing two semiautomatic handguns at the end of a Christmas choral concert, police said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

NY judge demands final vote tallies in congressional race

A state judge on Monday ordered elections officials to preserve records showing how they calculated the results of an extremely close congressional race in central New York after two counties reported errors or changes in vote tallies over the holiday weekend.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

NY bans incineration disposal of toxic firefighting foam

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has banned the disposal of toxic firefighting foam by incineration in certain cities after environmental groups raised concerns about an Albany-area firm that had incinerated foam for two years under a Department of Defense contract.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new research paper takes a swipe at the popular image of Alexander Hamilton as the abolitionist founding father, citing evidence he was a slave trader and owner himself.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new research paper takes a swipe at the popular image of Alexander Hamilton as the abolitionist founding father, citing evidence he was a slave trader and owner himself.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new research paper takes a swipe at the popular image of Alexander Hamilton as the abolitionist founding father, citing evidence he was a slave trader and owner himself.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new research paper takes a swipe at the popular image of Alexander Hamilton as the abolitionist founding father, citing evidence he was a slave trader and owner himself.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

New Yorkers line up for hours in 2nd day of early voting

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Voters across New York waited in long lines for hours to cast their ballots in the second day of early voting in the presidential election on Sunday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

New Yorkers line up for hours in 2nd day of early voting

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Voters across New York waited in long lines for hours to cast their ballots in the second day of early voting in the presidential election on Sunday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Tracking down the truth

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Horse power

MARATHON, N.Y. - While most modern farmers work their fields accompanied by the rumble of a trusty tractor, sheep farmer Donn Hewes labors to the faint jingling of harnesses in rhythm with the hoofbeats of horses and mules.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

'Paul Bunyan in a kilt'

SHARON SPRINGS, N.Y. - It sounds like the breathless plot of a zany sitcom: Manhattan adman who moonlights as a drag queen trades high heels for barn boots to raise goats and purple tomatoes with his life partner, a doctor who moved from geriatric practice to "The Martha Stewart Show" …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Petraeus lauds vets, Purple Heart recipients in NY

Gen. David Petraeus paid tribute to more than 400 veterans _ including 100 recipients of the Purple Heart _ Friday in upstate New York, days after he was asked to add command of the U.S. war in Afghanistan to his leadership of the war in Iraq.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO