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NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Barry and Cheryl Ogowetsky brought a bouquet of flowers to a makeshift memorial outside Newtown High School.

It was a small gesture like so many others here in recent days.

Thousands of people trekked to this picturesque New England town on Sunday to pay respects and mourn with a community that is struggling in the aftermath of the mass killings of 20 children and six...

My wife came into the room. She couldn’t speak. She choked back tears.

The best she could do was hold up her laptop: the story read 27 dead, including 18 children who were in kindergarten. They were presumably in the midst of playtime, coloring or learning how to read. Some kids were probably smiling, laughing and goofing around as 5-year-olds should.

There was a mass shooting at the...

Noam Bramson’s entry into the Westchester county executive race today presents an interesting dilemma for Democrats: Will a primary help or hurt their efforts to oust Republican Rob Astorino?

Some Democratic insiders say no, as long as the campaign isn’t a battle royal of flying elbows and super slams before the main November event.

Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick said a...

After decades of rising rates of childhood obesity, there are hopeful signs of progress in the nation’s fat fight.

Several cities, including New York, have reported declines in the number of obese school children. The shrinkage is not massive. New York City documented a 5.5 percent drop in the number of obese school children from 2007 to 2011, according to news accounts. The declines are concentrated...

Our first reaction to the announcement Friday evening that President Barack Obama is going to ask Congress for a $60 billion supplemental appropriation to cover the devastation of superstorm Sandy?

We hope it’s enough. It's less than what we asked for.

We hope we, meaning New York in general and Long Island in particular, get enough of it.

This is a reasonable worry, since the...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday afternoon to hear two cases challenging laws defining marriage as the union only of a man and a woman could prove momentous, if the justices seize the opportunity to make the choice of same sex couples to marry a constitutional right.

The court would serve the nation well by taking tha tissue head-on when it decides the cases sometime next year. Refusing...

Nine Westchester County legislators -- seven Republicans and two Democrats -- this afternoon approved a $1.7 billion hybrid budget that includes compromises on day care layoffs and program cuts.

But eight Democrats stormed out of the room before the vote and are saying they sent the budget back to committee. That was after they turned off the lights on the lawmakers that stayed behind.

“We...