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Evidence suggests Maya roots more tangled than previously thought

2013-04-25 15:58:00

The classic Maya civilization, which flourished in Central America for more than 600 years, has been celebrated for its vast city states adorned with monumental pyramids and for its technological feats such as the development of an elaborate written...

Leonard Kastle dies at 82; writer-director of 'The Honeymoon Killers'

2011-05-29 16:17:00

When Leonard Kastle's debut movie as a writer and director, "The Honeymoon Killers," was released in 1970, critics raved over the grimly realistic, low-budget, black-and-white crime drama about a lowlife lothario and his overweight nurse lover whose...

Electromagnetic field studies reach different conclusions

2010-02-15 00:00:00

How could respectable scientists armed with the same data on electromagnetic fields end up on opposite sides of the spectrum? The studies themselves are largely to blame. The results are often ambiguous and hard to interpret. Some suggest a link between...

Harold Gould dies at 86; veteran character actor

2010-09-14 00:00:00

Harold Gould, a veteran character actor who played con man Kid Twist in the 1973 movie "The Sting," Valerie Harper's father on TV's "Rhoda" and Betty White's boyfriend on "The Golden Girls," has died. He was 86. Gould, who also was known for his stage...

On different wavelengths over EMFs

2010-02-15 00:00:00

Three years ago, at the age of 48, Camilla Rees had to leave her apartment in downtown San Francisco. Not because of the rent, she says, but because of the radiation. Her personal radiation meter -- yes, such things exist -- spiked after a lawyer...

Victims of electrosensitivity syndrome say EMFs cause symptoms

2010-02-15 00:00:00

The explosive spread of electromagnetic fields across the world has undeniably spawned at least one disorder: electrosensitivity syndrome. Millions of people -- most of them in Europe -- say they suffer headaches, depression, nausea, rashes and other...

OHS grad remembered for smile, caring

2013-05-13 07:34:02

A 2012 Oneonta High School graduate who died Saturday was remembered as a student who enjoyed sports, had an infectious smile and helped others. Jared Trotti, 18, was found dead in a car at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the University at Albany, where...

BRIEF: OHS grad remembered as fun-loving, helpful

2013-05-13 07:44:02

UNC prof wins Guggenheim fellowship for work with Maya people

2013-05-13 00:00:00

Archaeologist Patricia McAnany was knee-deep in an excavation trench in Belize in 1995 when she uncovered a disturbing truth: Anthropologists, government officials, artifact collectors and the tourism industry all had profited from more than a century...

Latest Pennsylvania news, sports, business and entertainment

2013-05-12 20:56:20

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS-PA Feds chide Pa. on not paying benefits on time (Information in the following story is from: The Philadelphia Inquirer, http://www.philly.com ) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A newspaper says federal officials have accused...

Cops ID man found dead inside car at U. Albany as 18-year-old Oneonta man; was student in PA

2013-05-12 12:30:05

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man found dead in a car parked at the University at Albany has been identified as an 18-year-old college student from Oneonta. University Police identify the man as Jared Trotti and say he was a freshman at Elizabethtown...

Influence of big-money 'SuperPACs' not so clear

2013-04-12 15:34:43

CHICAGO — There's a scary bedtime story on money in politics about how the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling unleashed a tidal wave of corporate cash into politics and drowned out the voices of the little people. But as researchers...

D.B. Woodside Also: Author Gregory Maguire John Ortiz ("Luck") Ashton Holmes ("Revenge")

2013-03-19 11:20:28

University High School athlete Brad Harris signs with the University at Albany-SUNY on National Signing Day.

2013-02-06 00:00:00