I had to laugh when I read an article from Better Homes & Gardens last week listing “10 Gardening Tasks You Should Never Do When the Ground is Frozen.” Much of what’s mentio ...

New research shows that parents who read to their 6- to 8-year-olds nightly boost their children’s creativity and empathy.

Since the beginning of the year, volunteers have been bringing weekly stories classrooms at Richfield Springs Elementary ...

What’s Going On is a listing of activities taking place throughout the Downriver community. To submit an event, send an email to downriverlife@thenewsherald.com. List the time, date, location, cost ...

Nothing tastes better from the garden than a home-grown tomato. And the highest and best use of that tomato is to slice it up and put it between two slices of white bread slathered in mayo and ...

An NYPD cop was arrested for perjury after footage from his own body-worn camera showed he had planted evidence and lied on the stand in a gun case, Queens prosecutors said Wednesday. Officer Miguel ...

Utica, N.Y. ― A former prison guard from Mid-State Correctional Facility has been sentenced for planting evidence after the death of an inmate. Messiah Nantwi, 22, was beaten to death inside the Marcy ...

Lowell Elementary third grader Amy Ray was inspired to help others on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so she decided to sell hot chocolate in hopes of raising money for a local homeless shelter. On Monday ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A third grader at the Little Rock School District (LRSD) is now one step closer to being the spelling bee "c-h-a-m-p-i-o-n" in Pulaski County. During a recent spelling bee, LRSD's ...

Groton — City police this week arrested a former local man on charges he used a pen camera to secretly record a house guest in various states of undress in the bathroom of his Groton home. Michael ...

Pittsburgh Miller African Centered Academy, a K-5 elementary school in the Hill District. Pittsburgh school leaders say maintaining strides in third-grade math proficiency will require increased ...

For folks who move to the Lowcountry from colder regions, winter arrives with a kind of cultural whiplash. You might be grilling in short sleeves while back home friends and family are shoveling snow ...