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EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine.

A former college staffer convicted of ripping off the school raised money to repay it by roping far-flung investors into funding a fictitious online fitness magazine, prosecutors said Thursday.

COOPERSTOWN _ In Otsego County Court on Monday before Judge John Lambert, three defendants pleaded innocent at their arraignments: Calvin Carroll, 45, is charged with three counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and smuggling the cigarettes to New York.Two are also accused of paying an agent posing as a hit man to kill a husband and wife whom they believed had stolen from them.The indictments handed up Thursday in federal court in ...

Marlboro resident and professional dance instructor Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios, and his student, High Falls resident Dorrie Boice, won second place in the Pro/Am division of the American Lindy Hop Championships in Stamford, Conn., on Oct 24.

A federal health official says two deaths and 26 other illnesses may be linked to ground beef recalled by a New York meat company because it might have been contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

The current exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art - "Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era" - is a didactic sort of show, centering on representations of historical events in American art and about the literature of Walt Whitman in and around the Civil War period.

The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business today named John T. "Jock" Menzies -- chairman of the Terminal Corporation, a warehouse, trucking and distribution company -- as the 2009 "Person of the Year." Each year the Smith School's logistics, transportation and supply chain management program and student-run Supply Chain ...

Canadian landlord RioCan is entering the U.S. market by investing about $40 million in Port Washington, N.Y.-based grocery-anchored center REIT Cedar Shopping Centers and forming a joint venture with the firm to buy about $500 million worth of neighborhood centers within the next two years.

A Maryland man was arrested Oct. 18 for possession of a safe stolen from a Milford residence during a burglary the previous day, Otsego deputies said.

Written by Patrick Kelton on Oct 27th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

In 1990, the United States was near the peak of a decades-long crime wave. Time magazine reported that New York City was undergoing "a surge of... violent crime that government officials seem utterly unable to combat." Less than two decades later, the city's crime-rate has plummeted.

Alleged Drug Lord Arrested After Police Found $205M in his Mexico City Mansion Says He Sold Meth Chemicals on Black Market Photo Zhenli Ye Gon, Chinese-Mexican businessman and alleged drug lord, was arrested July 23, 2007, in Maryland, on charges of being involved in one of the world's largest drug rings for a key ingredient in methamphetamines.

Eli W. Robinson, 16, of 20 Wedgewood Drive won the New York State Junior category of the New York State Cyclocross Championship, held in Troy on Saturday October 17.

Cash-strapped families were dealt another blow this fall as tuition at public and private colleges for the 2009-10 academic year continued to outpace inflation, the College Board said in a report released on Oct.

Average tuition prices rose sharply again this fall as colleges passed much of the burden of their own financial problems on to recession-battered students and parents.

President Barack Obama chats with students during a visit to Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland .

A sex abuse case against Delaware's Catholic Diocese of Wilmington and a former priest will be delayed after the church filed for federal bankruptcy protection on the eve of proceedings.

Almost everyone has an answer to "What is your favorite movie?" For some, the answer is based on a favorite childhood memory.

Jon Gosselin has been dating his fair share of women since the news of his divorce.