GEORGETOWN — In the wake of 26-year-old Georgetown Central School music teacher Elizabeth Polletto’s death in a car crash Wednesday morning, Principal Matt Carlson said today that the school is “taking it day by day.” After learning of Polletto’s death Wednesday, Carlson said grief counselors from Alternative Organizational Structure 98 and Regional School Unit 1 came […]
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THIS WEEK IN THE CIVIL WAR
A battle unfolded out West 150 years ago this week during the Civil War. On March 26, 1862, a Confederate force of about 300 Texas fighters camped near Glorieta Pass in New Mexico Territory — a strategic location at the southernmost end of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on the Santa Fe trail. Several hundred […]
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IBM, hospital training Watson in cancer
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The medical training of IBM’s speedy Watson computer will continue with a residency at a renowned Manhattan cancer hospital. IBM and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said recently that they will add the latest in oncology research — and the hospital’s accumulated experience — to Watson’s vast knowledge base, and keep updating it. […]
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Recovery from Bastrop fires faces several obstacles
BASTROP, Texas — Greg Creacy stops his Texas Parks and Wildlife pickup on the side of Park Road 1A and points to a gully clogged with black mud and ash. A nearly 5-inch January rain at Bastrop State Park had filled every low spot in sight with the thick muck. “See all of that?” Creacy says. […]
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Economy grew 3 percent in final quarter of ’11
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U. S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3 percent in the final three months of 2011, the best pace in a year and a half. But that growth has likely slowed in the current quarter. Businesses have been restocking their shelves at a slower pace and shipping fewer long-lasting […]
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Excerpts from Supreme Court health care arguments
Excerpts from Wednesday’s Supreme Court arguments over whether all of President Barack Obama’s health care law should fall if the individual mandate portion is found unconstitutional and whether Congress was unconstitutionally coercive when it tied Medicaid money to the expansion of Medicaid in the law: ——— Plaintiff ’s attorney Paul Clement: No matter what you […]
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3 days of hearings over, 2 justices may be key
WASHINGTON — After three days of Supreme Court arguments, the questions justices asked the lawyers are the only tea leaves to read, however unreliable. That has led to the belief the fate of the health care law could lie with two justices. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s mixed queries left the most room for him to be seen […]
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Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash’s baritone or Hank Williams’ heartbreak. Scruggs died Wednesday morning […]
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Details of Vt. teacher’s death stun communities
St. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — A snowplow driver and his wife went to great lengths to dispose of the body of a popular teacher they had just beaten and strangled, putting her nude body on a tarp, pouring bleach on it, weighing the corpse down with concrete blocks and tossing it into the Connecticut River, […]
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Unemployment aid applications decline
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dropped last week, the latest evidence that the job market is strengthening. The Labor Department said today weekly unemployment benefit applications fell 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 359,000. That’s the smallest number of applicants since April 2008. The four- week average, a less volatile […]