Naples News

In this Thursday July 9, 2009 file photo, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi , center, gestures with youths wearing T-shirts with "Peace" written on the front, as she visits the Scampia district, in Secondigliano on the outskirts of Naples , southern Italy.

Oscar Tuazon understands the aesthetic power of tension. The Seattle-born sculptor's latest exhibition, using primarily industrial and found materials, Bend It Till It Breaks builds on this theme with an ambitious installation in France.

A Gates man is dead after an ATV crash in Steuben County. State Police believe alcohol was involved.

If you're looking for ways to get into the holiday season but also break out of the yuletide rut, we've got you covered.

Victims of jailed U.S. financier Bernard Madoff say they're upset at organizers of "Madoff auctions" who claim to be selling victims' items.

The Ontario County Sheriff's Office arrested a Pittsford man in Naples on drug-related charges.

Jo Krajci's framed artwork is just as much about what's not on the paper as what is.

Here it is, New York, a real Naples pie! From Naples! It was our privilege today to be flamed by Adam Kuban of Slice , the very venerable pizza blog.

A Midnight Dreary: Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Experience an evening of spine-tingling tales from America's master of the macabre at 7 p.m. Friday at Bristol Valley Theater, 151 S. Main St., Naples.

It's official. Some Western New Yorkers today woke to the first snowfall of the season.

A few years back, Naples grape grower John Ingle came across a seedless variety of the Concord grape.

Follow the self-guided Naples Open Studio Trail from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday to gain behind-the-scenes entree into the workspaces of painters, sculptors, glassblowers, jewelry designers and others.

I suppose if you look at a satellite picture of the series of glacial lakes splayed across western New York you might imagine a hand reaching north toward Lake Ontario from the hills of the Southern Tier with fingers spread.

The World's Greatest Grape Pie Contest again highlights this annual celebration of the grape harvest in Naples, Ontario County.

This autumn the MusA©e cantonal des BeauxArts of Lausanne is presenting the first retrospective of the work of RenA©e Green from the 1980s to the present day.

Sept. 26-27. Grapes, grapes and more will be in the spotlight during the annual Naples Grape Festival.

As part of its acquisition of National City Bank branches in Western Pennsylvania, First Niagara will shift some 50 executive level workers from their Pendleton office to their office in the Larkin at Exchange building in downtown Buffalo.

Skeet shooting: Rochester Brooks Gun Club will host the New York State Championships today through Monday, take a two-day break, then stage the U.S. Open Skeet Championships Sept.

James T. Meisenzahl, 55, of Naples died while doing landscaping on a property in South Bristol.

NEW YORK While the Mediterranean diet has been said to prevent second heart attacks and delay Alzheimer's disease, new research suggested that the diet may be beneficial to Type 2 diabetes patients.