Leon, Nicaragua News

Staff Photo by Danielle Moore Dustin Peoples, 16, welds "horseshoe cowboys" out of old washers and horseshoes during a construction and metalworking class at the Catoosa Performance Learning Center.

While non-profit organizations across the country are barely surviving the recession, the New Haven-Leon Sister City Project is riding out the storm with relative ease, the organization's program director says.

Although reducing intimate partner violence is a pervasive public health problem, few longitudinal studies in developing countries have assessed ways to end such abuse.

Nicaragua's elite can seek medical care in immaculate hospitals or fly to Miami and combine a doctor's appointment with a posh shopping excursion.

ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT OFF THE COAST OF CORINTO, NICARAGUA, July 22, 2009 - Since he was a small boy, Juan Carlos Manzanares wanted to be a surgeon.

"With This Quarter" July 19, 2009 The unfair swipe at Bill Knott aside, John Oliver Simon's comment is well taken... and the poem by one of his students deserves the tiny spotlight I can provide... Unlike Bill Knott, who took the travelled path to teaching in a college, I work at the roots, where poetry begins, with third through eighth-graders, ...

It didn't take long for Angelo Bucardo to decide where exactly his son's future lie.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets Wednesday with the Millenium Challenge Corporation to decide whether to cancel US aid in response to the leftist leader's alleged attempts to steal elections.

The town's most famous business, Bigelow Carpet Co., had its heyday in the mid-1800s. A hundred-plus years later, the hot spot was The Carpet Club - named for Bigelow's enterprise - because of the many live bands featured there in the 1970s and '80s. On Friday, those heady musical nights will be re-created with a Classic Rock Reunion at the Strand ...