Victory News

Years of academic improvement may not be enough to save the New Covenant Charter School.

Adding a one-of-a-kind touch to the traditional wedding band, Brooklyn-based jewelery designer Camille Hempel 's Fingerprint Rings are embellished with a cast of an actual fingerprint.

Here is a curious, widely forgotten episode in the history of French painting. In 1882 James Tissot returned to Paris following an 11-year sojourn as a successful painter of London society.

Lenny Rosado, father of 11-year-old Leandra Rosado, described the passing of the new law as a tremendous victory ALBANY - Driving drunk with a child in the car officially becomes a felony Friday.

You probably remember your first attempt at baking and decorating a gingerbread house as a kid.

The day after Houston voters chose Annise Parker to become the city's first openly gay mayor, she did as she had throughout a contentious, hard-fought campaign: focused on the brick-and-mortar realities of running the country's fourth largest city.

It's a victory for New York drivers. Governor Paterson is backing down on those new license plates.

Precis: The egalitarian tradition of Scandinavia led to the invention of the Kollektivhus, a partly-communal, semi-private arrangement of apartments relying partly on volunteer labor to accomplish a full complement of services.

The Hanukkah House Museum of Temple Concord, a seasonal teaching museum in the Kilmer Mansion at 9 Riverside Drive, Binghamton, will be open from 6 to 9 p.m. for First Friday.

Lydia Zotto of Troy, center, wears a Victorian dress made by her mother Deborah, far right in dark coat with camera to her eye, as do Claire Yingling of Ohio, more... Strollers walk on 2nd Street during the 27th annual Victorian Stroll in Troy, NY Sunday December 6, 2009, as seen from inside Pioneer Bank.

Members of the Select Choir from Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake perform Thursday night at the Saratoga Arms as part of Saratoga's Victorian Streetwalk.

Sax-O-Claus will be at tonight's annual Victorian Streetwalk in Saratoga Springs.

Outside, in the sharp wintry light that makes you squint when the No. 1 train pops out of the tunnel past 122nd Street, the banners were still flying high.

The 23rd Annual Victorian Streetwalk draws a huge crowd in Saratoga Springs, but budget cuts could make securing the next one a little tougher.

The Appellate Division First Department today ruled for property owners in their eminent domain challenge to Columbia University's attempt to take their properties.

Santa Claus greets children at a tree lighting ceremony Wednesday night on Broadway in Saratoga Springs.

Bing Bang jewelry , comprised of founding designer Anna Sheffield and her brother, Kevin Kearney, have thus far created two highly successful women's collections but they have set their sights on a men's collection this time around.

NEW YORK - At last, the back story of "Peter and the Wolf." With the well-earned blessing of Sergei Prokofiev's estate, director Anne Geenen has added a 30-minute prequel to the classic children's musical about the boy who captures a wolf and combined it with an original score for a sweet production currently showing at the New Victory Theater.

In the Next Room or the vibrator play , the Sarah Ruhl play that bowed Nov. 19 at the Lyceum Theatre, wavers between comedy and drama over the trials and errors of Victorian sex therapy.

That the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has even authorized a five-day turkey hunt, which ends today, has only increased the turkey talk.