I went to the Deschutes County Courthouse this month and watched people plead guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants. It was one after another. I have watched it before. It feels like ...

What just passed was the year of democratic exhaustion and electoral strife. When Winston Churchill dismissed Indian leaders as “men of straw” in his opposition to independence, he was articulating a ...

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Every December our downtown takes on a familiar glow. The holiday lights and decorations on our streetlights feel timeless, so woven into the season that it’s hard to imagine the Town was ever ...

MAAC basketball action continues this week with a full slate of games, including action for both Siena University teams. Each week, on Wednesday, the Times Union unveils its latest power rankings for ...

Republican strategist Karl Rove in a new WSJ Opinion piece says "[T]here are signs that the public is tiring of [President Trump's] hyperbole and insatiable desire for retribution." Smithsonian ...

Seemingly overnight, things are happening that have the potential to result in an extinction-level event for movies as we know them. Of course, movies didn’t go away. They took a major hit, one ...

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A close call, projects in the works and getting into the Christmas spirit were only a part of our local life and times during December 2000. Area residents were glued to their televisions on a ...

LOS ANGELES — Indiana’s Curt Cignetti and the University of Alabama’s Kalen DeBoer take the podium at the Rose Bowl’s annual UFC-style head coach press conference. As they sit down, the clatter of ...

You probably saw that Brown University placed its chief cop, Rodney Chatman, on leave days after the horrific mass shooting was resolved. But the question lingers: Why didn’t Brown act earlier?