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Members of the American Legion of Richmond County pause to mark the moment that hostilities ended in World War I, "the war to end all wars." STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE/JAN SOMMA-HAMMEL Read the story This photo is part of the following galleries: 11-12 News Photo Gallery

Veterans hold American flags and banners for the various branches of the service, during a memorial ceremony last year at the World War I monument at Ocean View Cemetery.

News videos Entertainment videos HS sports videos Sports videos >> YOUR PHOTOS Latest user-submitted photos: UPLOAD HERE >> SEE MORE PHOTOS >> YOUR VIDEOS Share the videos you've shot - it's easy! Yankee Fun at the Ferry Hundreds of people making the best of a long crowded wait at the ferry terminal after the Yankee Parade.

One of the baddest of opera's bad girls - so rebellious that sometimes she even smokes cigarettes - will strut her defiant stuff Saturday in the Music Hall of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.

From pop rock to opera and country to alternative, the best of the best of Nova Scotia music will take centre stage this weekend in Yarmouth.

New Yorkers go to the polls today to choose a mayor and other officials. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. Today is Election Day in New York City.

Crime scene investigators peer in the open doorway of the Bulls Head shanty where 39-year-old Marion Hart was murdered.

Jessica Osorio, 9, gets her swine flu shot at PS 157 in Brooklyn. The city is now probing how two public school students, including one from Staten Island, were administered the vaccine without parental consent.

Well, it's now official. The buck stops here. There are deer playing at the three public courses on Staten Island as well as the Staten Island Golf Practice Center.

The luxury Sag Harbor condominium project known at 21 West Water has $1.7 million in liens filed against it by contractors and suppliers and as of press time has yet to renew its building permit with the Village of Sag Harbor, which will cost developers roughly $45,000. The waterfront condo project, which was approved over two years ago by the ...

" Voters are angry about the city term limits extension from two to three terms supported by Republican Councilman James Oddo, according to Democratic Party opponent James Pocchia, who is running to unseat the incumbent whose district covers central Staten Island and a sliver of Brooklyn.

Local contractors and suppliers have filed more than $1.7 million in work liens against the dormant condominium project known as 21 West Water Street in Sag Harbor.

News videos Entertainment videos HS sports videos Sports videos >> >> >> >> >> Staten Island health care gets a shot in the arm Loans through city will let Island's 2 big providers of health care expand services Tuesday, October 20, 2009 By PETER N. SPENCER STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island health care will get a critically needed shot in the ...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, standing, announces the loan program at City Hall to the delight of Borough President James Molinaro.

Anyone can throw a jazz concert, but you know you're doing something special when the monster players are in the audience as well as on stage.

I spent a couple of weeks stewing last month after my defeat by knockout in front of the Board of Equalization.

If you think traffic is bad now, wait a few years. With some forecasts calling for population growth of 35 percent in the next two decades, Island newcomers will be taking to the roads in droves, and that's not even counting teens who will be passing their road tests and getting behind the wheel for the first time.

Powerful winds ripped through the Island today, causing tree branches to topple, like this one here on Todt Hill Road, on the grounds of the Richmond County Country Club golf course, Dongan Hills.

Large tenors often have large personalities. The most famous example may be the late great romantic Luciano Pavarotti, but Mario Lanza, the platinum-selling tenor and movie star who several times topped the charts after serving in World War II, could also be dramatic on stage and off.

Staten Island-based rapper Method Man surrendered to authorities Monday, after officials say he failed to pay $32, 799 in personal income taxes over a three-year period.