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RPO embraces summer Classical music
While many organizations use summer to take a break, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra continues its musical offerings, keeping Rochester filled with music all year round.
Summertime is synonymous with salt-rimmed margaritas, minty mojitos and other Latin cocktails.
U.S. prosecution of terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility fall short of international standards for fair trials, a U.N. rights official said Monday.
Sentence is probation, $3,500 fine for DWI
A Salamanca man convicted of driving while intoxicated was sentenced Tuesday in Cattaraugus County Court to five years of probation and fined $3,500. Benjamen J. Roblee, 28, was sentenced by Judge Larry M. ...
Former Restaurant Owner Faces Tax Charges
A man who owned a restaurant in Allegany County that's now closed has been arrested for not paying taxes.
NY judge: NSA can refuse to discuss wiretapping
WASHINGTON _ The National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether their phones were tapped as part of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program, a ...
McClatchy's 'Detainee' Series Gets Unprecedented Push
NEW YORK McClatchy's in-depth series on wrongful detention and abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other controversial sites has had such strong response this week from U.S. newspapers that the company is ...
Charges to follow airport car crash
Charges could be filed by Friday against Casey A. Comes, 20, of Cuba, and against one or all of his three passengers, who were in his vehicle at about 10:30 p. m. Sunday when he drove his car at a high speed ...
Most Read: 15 Takes on Latin America
The Finance Professor In May, my wife and I took a vacation to Ixtapa, Mexico. This week, I was on Fox Business Network's "Happy Hour" show to explain my "BrISK" -- Brazil, Israel, South Korea -- investment ...
Nadia Hijab | Obama's Blind Spot on Israel
Senator Barack Obama has positioned himself as an independent thinker unafraid to break the Washington mold.
Four injured as car flips while racing on airport runway
Four people were injured late Sunday when a 20-year-old Cuba man who was racing at the Cattaraugus County-Olean Airport drove off the end of the runway into an embankment and flipped his car, the Cattaraugus ...
Attorney disputes ex-trooper's blood test
Former Erie County prosecutor Edward Cosgrove, acting as defense lawyer for a retired state trooper charged in a fatal accident, challenged the value of a blood alcohol test given to his client Thursday.
Accident pins man between vehicles
An Allegany County man was injured Tuesday night when he was pinned between two vehicles at an auto auction in Dansville, Livingston County.
Cuba Lake started as a water source for the regional canal system in the 1800s
Formerly known as the Oil Creek Reservoir, the man-made Cuba Lake was created as a reservoir for the Genesee Valley and Erie canals in 1858.
Milton Resnick Was an AbEx Pioneer
A late starter or a painter ahead of his time? An earnest also-ran or a prickly, enigmatic genius? Too sensual or too hermetic? Milton Resnick was a first-generation abstract expressionist fated - in his ...
FOOT IN THE DOOR: President Bush is reaching out to touch someone, and we suspect it's the Castro regime.
Books: A Colorful Look Back at Pre-Castro Cuba: Mobsters do the mambo
Books The best image of the capitalist/criminal cabal that ran pre-revolutionary Cuba was captured in the Havana episode in The Godfather, Part II, where gangsters famously slice up a cake decorated with a map ...
And At Cannes, the Winner Is...
Sean Penn, President of the nine-person Jury at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, stood before the 2,300 cinema swells in the Lumiere Theatre this evening and told them that the top prize was awarded ...
Obama says his Cuba policy is based on 'Libertad'
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, left, chats with Jorge Mas Santos, Chairman of the Board of the Cuban American National Foundation before speaking at a Cuban Independence Day ...
May 21, 2008: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, is joined by his wife Victoria , center, and the family dogs as he is released from Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston.