Hamilton County News

Nine months ago in Wells, a fire killed four people in a group home for the disabled.

The Dominion ImageCast voting machines used in this year's Nov. 3rd election, both in the 23rd Congressional Special Election and in the local elections around the state have not been certified for use by the State Board of Elections.

Fulton County public health officials reported the county's first swine flu-related death Thursday.

The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines.

Today was the final day for absentee ballots to be received in New York's 23rd District Special Congressional Election.A Already three counties have completed the final vote counts, and Hamilton County has already certified those counts to the State Board of Elections.

It's been eight months since a fire at the Riverview group home destroyed a state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities facility, killed four of the home's nine residents and displaced the others.

The Twelfth Annual Indian Lake Country Christmas Tour will bring the holiday spirit to Indian Lake on the weekend of Nov.

Today is just another day for hundreds of thousands of Americans. It's likely that as you are reading this, some of them are patrolling streets in Iraqi cities while others are carefully driving down a dusty mountain road in Afghanistan on alert for enemy fire.

In September's local primary elections, a couple of races were so close, they had to be decided by absentee ballots.

Plans to relocate a power line in St. Lawrence County may involve only six acres of remote Adirondack land.

UC is represented among more than 80 national and regional authors at the Oct. 17 Books by the Banks book festival downtown.

CHEERS to the National Park Service for its Scenic Byways program, which produces brochures to ballyhoo localities' assets to potential tourists.

The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake will participate in a statewide effort to raise awareness about domestic violence this Saturday, Oct.

Local professional photographer Bill Killon will host the 2009 Community Photo Festival at the Indian Lake Theatre on Oct.

The Village of Port Henry is embarking on the first step toward a vote that would end the village as a municipality.

Daniel O'Malley, of the Cincinnati Police Department's District 1, looks at the city's skyline.

Police say a woman has been arrested for allegedly spanking another person's 2-year-old son in a Cincinnati store.

A new healing retreat for women living with cancer and other chronic diseases will be offered this fall.

The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama's plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation's students.

The budget crisis deepens in Hamilton County and now two of the county's top officials say the crisis is about to have a direct effect on public safety.