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  • The Bowery, under the shadow of the elevated train tracks in New York City, bustled at night with colored lights and cane-swirling barkers, in places such as the Lyceum Concert Garden.
    Teddy Roosevelt's 'Doomed' War On New York Vice
    When Teddy Roosevelt became a New York police commissioner in 1895, he vowed to clean up the city's endemic vice and corruption. It didn't exactly work out. New Yorkers liked the idea of standing up to corrupt cops, but they rebelled when Roosevelt tried to enforce a ban on Sunday drinking.
  • This Best Buy store in Richfield, Minn., near the retailer's corporate headquarters, is getting remodeled as part of a pilot project in the Twin Cities and San Antonio, Texas. The new store, part of Best Buy's "connected store" concept, will be smaller and emphasize portable electronics, such as tablets and e-readers.
    Best Buy Rethinks The Big-Box Model
    More and more consumers are buying electronics online instead of at Best Buy's sprawling showrooms. So the struggling electronics retailer is shifting strategy: closing some of its giant stores, opening smaller ones and cutting 400 jobs.
  • Egyptian military police stand by as a protester holds a placard in support of Salafist presidential candidate Hazem Abu Ismail at a demonstration outside the High Presidential Election Committee building Tuesday in Cairo. Ismail and nine other candidates have been disqualified from the race.
    Egypt's Banned Candidates Vow Not To Go Quietly
    Election officials upheld their ban of nearly half of the presidential candidates running in next month's contest. Among them are two leading Islamist candidates and the intelligence chief for former President Hosni Mubarak. The decision radically alters the race for a post that will shape Egypt's political landscape.
  • This pesto originated in the wilds of a Pittsburgh backyard.
    Taming Those Wild, Stinging Backyard Greens Into Dinner
    A Pittsburgh food writer offers a lesson in making pesto out of stinging nettles and garlic mustard — springtime greens often considered weeds.
  • Candidate Bares All in Making Announcement
    By Mark ScottBuffalo, NY – The Green Party has been creative in attracting attention to its issues. Four years ago, the party ran Al Lewis, the actor who…
  • Commentary: They're Not Out To Get Us
    By Philip SiddonsBuffalo, NY – Dan Lenard's April 13th essay "A Definition of Peace" described peace as the absence of military battles - when people…
  • Commentary: Maps Paved Way for D-Day Invasion
    By Earl McElfreshOlean, NY – This month marks the 60th anniversary of D-Day and the last official reunion of D-Day veterans. The plan to embark Allied…
  • Commentary: The Cake
    By Amy Ludwig VanDerwaterBuffalo, NY – When you begin dating, no one ever tells you about the cake. It just doesn't come up. His mother doesn't talk about…
  • Commentary: A New Year, A New You
    By Christina AbtBuffalo, NY – As we turn the calendar to the New Year of 2006, many of us follow the trend of resolving to make ourselves over. We…
  • Commentary: Global Warming Is Real
    By Tracy GreggBuffalo, NY – Dan Lenard's commentary of Dec. 8 gave me chills. His statements that global warming is a "theory" and that the end of the Ice…
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