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The disease blamed for the Irish potato famine in the 1840s is infecting tomato and potato plants in the eastern United States, agricultural officials said.

A strain of the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine of the 1840s is on the loose in Rhode Island and is damaging potato and tomato crops.

Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

One of India's most renowned luxury hotel groups, The Leela Palaces, Hotels & Resorts has appointed Tamir Kobrin as General Manager of the new Leela Palace Kempinski Udaipur.

Is North Korea's recent threat against the United States just more of the country's saber-rattling? Or should we be very, very afraid? As the world watches for a test launch by North Korea of a long-range missile toward Hawaii -- expected some time around United States' Independence Day -- experts are still locked in debate about whether the ...

A worker at a West Virginia turkey plant has been sentenced to a year of home confinement for stomping on a bird's head and slamming another to the ground in abuse caught on video.

Graduation is always memorable, but for Sophia Angeles and Angie Morales, their June 9 graduation from Lincoln High School was particularly memorable.

Analysis of the longest running ICSI programme in the United States has found reassuring evidence that babies born from frozen embryos fertilised via ICSI do just as well as those born from frozen embryos fertilised via standard IVF treatment.

A woman involved in a head-on collision that killed a Cornell University theater educator last Friday has been charged with driving while intoxicated.

Centered around the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in New York City, the Stonewall riots between the New York police department and local members of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgend er community began.

Lowering the speed limit on Route 414 in Hector will be one of the topics for discussion at the annual meeting of the Hector Community Association on Tuesday.

Ronald Ehrenberg, a professor at Cornell University, knew that his trip to the state Capitol on Saturday would likely be futile.

The theft of a Cornell University-owned laptop earlier this month has left 45,000 members of the university's community at risk of identity and credit card fraud, the Cornell Daily Sun reports .

Lawmakers in Oswego County are reviewing a plan to beef up staff at the Department of Social Services.

Ithaca Fire Department has responded to Fall Creek Gorge on reports of a body in the creek on Cornell's campus.

The title of Thomas Wolfe's 1940 novel said it first and Stacy Singer, seven-time gold-medal winner at the World Baton Twirling Championships in the 1980s and '90s, has come to know its truth: You Can't Go Home Again.

An investigation conducted by Cornell University finds significant internal problems within the Child Protective Services Division at the Oswego County Department of Social Services.

The Moving Wall, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial, is visiting Munnsville in Madison County.

A Cornell University graduate student charged with murdering his wife is being held without bail in an upstate New York jail.Blazej Kot appeared in Tompkins County Court on Wednesday but didn't enter a plea.

The conclusion is supported by an unlikely source: the exhaust plume from the NASA space shuttle launched a century later.