Cuba News

Venezuela's slumping oil earnings are starting to squeeze President Hugo Chavez 's public spending spree and curb the international aid he uses to counter U.S. influence.

Cuba on Monday began accepting requests for electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway 's home on the island, including the unpublished epilogue of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and coded ...

Some travelers who were heading for Toronto made an unscheduled stop in western New York instead.

One firefighter who had a building fall on him a week ago today in Friendship remains in serious condition in the intensive care unit at the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo.

It's not hyperbole to say that Le Cirque - Sirio Maccioni's celebrated 34-year-old restaurant now located on East 58th Street - is more empire than eatery, a canteen for three decades of boldfaced names.

Raymond E. Endress, 73, of 169 W. Main St., Sher-man, N.Y., died at 12:15 p.m. Friday, December 19, 2008, at his home.

A U.S. human rights group on Monday called for a stay of all war-crimes proceedings against five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged with orchestrating the Sept.

Four firefighters were hurt when a wall of a burning building collapsed on them early Sunday, and three remained hospitalized in Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, Allegany County public safety officials ...

Four firefighters were hurt when part of a burning building collapsed on them in western New York.

New York, December 19, 2008 I NCC General Secretary Michael Kinnamon joined Church World Service Director John McCullough and more than a dozen other Christian leaders Dec.

"Look for the man learning How to Cook Everything . He will direct you to the location of the feast." And so began a recent cloak-and-fork odyssey that ultimately led some 150 food lovers to a secret - and ...

It's Che Day! That's right, today Steven Soderbergh's four-plus-hour opus opens for one-week Oscar-qualifying runs in New York and Los Angeles.

NEW YORK - Two dozen family members of Sept. 11 victims signed a letter Wednesday saying they don't believe in the fairness of the military trials of five men charged with orchestrating the terrorist attacks, ...

What do jet fuel, bubble gum and the bristles in your toothbrush have in common? They all have ingredients that can be traced back to the same raw material.

Harry Shaffer keeps a small stack of teacher evaluations in his desk at his Lawrence home.

Maureen Santora's heart leapt for joy yesterday when she heard the five Guantanamo terror detainees confess their guilt in court to the 9/11 terror attacks that killed her New York firefighter son, Christopher ...

Tagline : "A real revolutionary goes where he is needed." Translation : Real revolutionaries don't need no stinking bathroom breaks.

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season featured 16 named storms, from Arthur to Paloma, including eight hurricanes, the strongest being Ike.

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, seemed to strike the United States and Cuba as if on redial, setting at least five weather records for persistence and repeatedly striking the same areas.

Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of a fire that gutted the recently re-opened Echo Lanes Bowling center late Friday night.