Peru News

Twelve months ago gas was $1.20 cheaper, but it still hurt. "I can remember when it was $1.09 ," said Peru resident Nanci Williamborst.

The city and town of Plattsburgh already engage in a number of shared services, and not just with each other.

Soaring heating-oil and kerosene prices have some people shivering with worry well before winter's arrival.

They were born in 39 different countries - from Afghanistan to Jamaica to Guyana - but yesterday, they stood side by side in Manhattan and became Americans together.

The honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing en masse, a plight known ominously as Colony Collapse Disorder which bodes most ill for both the environment and the food chain.

Copper prices glimmered at a two-month high Monday before giving back its gains on a slightly bolstered U.S. dollar and widespread speculation that the miners' stike in Peru wouldn't cut into the metal's ...

OLPC has large purchase agreements in Uruguay and Peru for a total of 1.7 million computers.

The State Assembly approved the Clinton County occupancy tax late Monday night, clearing the way for a local law to be enacted.

Park Sutton Advisors, LLC announced today the launch of a new investment banking boutique that will provide investment banking services to the financial services industry.

YONKERS - Puerto Rican pride was on full display yesterday as a few thousand people ignored the threat of rain to enjoy the 29th annual Yonkers Puerto Rican/Hispanic Day Parade and Festival.

Nearly 59,000 captive teens might seem like every parent's worst nightmare. But for Helsinki -based Sulake, such a group provided a pain-free way to gain valuable insight into what "kids these days" really care ...

Customers at Chases' convenience store in Peru, New York might have thought a new drive-through was added overnight.

New York state police have tentatively identified a Keeseville woman who was killed in a car fire on River Road in Peru early Tuesday morning.

SABMiller shareholders were left parched on Thursday. The beer brewer's shares dropped in London after Belgian rival InBev offered to buy Anheuser-Busch for $46.3 billion, dispelling hopes that it might buy ...

Just days after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Obama is naming as his economic policy director an economist who has clashed with critics of Wal-Mart by defending the company as a boon ...

By Katie Aurand, Journal correspondent Sunday, June 08, 2008 Qeldas Pickett never thought she would be able to participate in something like the Crazy Horse Memorial Volksmarch.

Alejandra Delfin is leaving her print on the Bronx. Looking through the front window of Studio 889 in the Bronx on a Saturday morning makes for a surprising sight - a group of children and adults creating and ...

IT'S an article of faith on the left that the Bush administra tion has done nothing that has enhanced our security - rather, its alleged blunders have only contributed to the number of jihadists who want to ...

“Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976”

JEWISH arts in New York City . What, exactly, does that mean? A 19th-century Austrian menorah? D.J.'s from Tel Aviv playing Prospect Park in Brooklyn? Jackie Mason cracking up an Off Broadway crowd with jokes ... via The New York Times

“As far as social justice at the high-school level, we think this will change the landscape of our school and the community forever”

Kevin Pearson recognizes his privilege. He doesn't begrudge being white, a man, attractive, a college graduate, heterosexual, charismatic and able-bodied. Yet he knows his privileges open doors closed to some ... via Press-Republican