Governor Smith News Today

Arrested on a charge of misprision of felony last fortnight was Vermont's Governor Charles Manley Smith. His dereliction was failing to report a bookkeeper's embezzlement…

The idea that Wilson had lost his marbles started during the Paris Peace Conference, which produced the peace treaty that ended World War I.

Eagle Archives, Nov. 8, 1928: When presidential election returns looked promising to "Al" Smith supporters, 50 paraded up and down Main Street. Herbert Hoover supporters turned out for an early

Local news from 1973, 1948 and 1923

For centuries, a great primeval forest stretched uninterrupted from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. But, after little more than three generations of European development, the landscape was completely transformed.

In this post-election, post-World Series moment, the intersection of baseball and politics nearly a century ago is the subject of a lecture this week at the New York State Museum.

PATRICK MARMION: Terrific as Ralph Fiennes is in David Hares new play about New Yorks 20th-century town planner Robert Moses, hes matched by a blistering turn from Danny Webb.

Fiennes heads an electrifying cast in David Hare’s dynamic portrait of Robert Moses, an aggressive yet visionary urban planner who refused to back down

Not that I never quarrel with McMurtry. He sometimes harbors a touch too much romanticism, especially in his early work. His women strike me as a bit much, too heroic and long-suffering and strong. Too good. He sees ’em tough, but seldom does he see ’em mean. And Texas probably has as many mean, bitchy, neurotic women as any place on earth, with the possible exception of Manhattan; there, of course, they’ve gathered from all points of the compass, while our own crop is largely homegrown....