Bedford (Bronx, New York)

A New York man has been charged with sending sexually explicit messages to a person who he believed to be a young Bedford County girl. Moses Kahn of Forest Hills, N.Y., has been charged with 13 counts of using a communications system to “...

The Little Town Players are putting on their spring performance: a comedy called "The Nerd." Bedford's hometown theater company has been putting on plays for almost 40 years, but this show is unique. The star is Jamie Watson, a professional who lives in...

A wave of anger directed at Wall Street has spread to Roanoke.  A new group called Occupy Roanoke was recently formed on Facebook after members saw the protests in New York. Now organizers want to hold similar protests in the Star City. People have been...

* Global equity markets continue to climb * Yen gains on minister's comments, rise seen temporary * Gold gains after longest losing streak in four years * Oil rebounds, rises above $105 a barrel (Adds oil settlement prices, updates prices) By Herbert...

NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks added to declines late in the session on Thursday after a Federal Reserve official's comments that the central bank could begin dialing back its bond-buying program as early as this summer. John Williams,...

The annual Alpert Awards in the Arts give a $75,000 boost to midcareer artists who often aren’t well known but have earned respect in their fields. Among the higher-profile winners of this year's awards, funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation and...

* MSCI share index at highest since 2008; DAX at record high * German data lifts euro, possible ECB action caps gains * Aussie dollar falls on RBA rate cut By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - Major stock indexes in Germany and the United...

Three UMBC women’s players were named to the All-America East conference teams, including defender Jamie Fahey, who was honored for the third straight year. Fahey (Loch Raven) and midfielder Kirsten Bilney (Mount Hebron) made the first team...

Princeton’s Erin McMunn, a Winters Mill graduate, was named Ivy League Attacker of the Year and teammate Sarah Lloyd, a Severna Park graduate, made first team when the conference’s postseason awards were announced Wednesday. McMunn was the...

April 30 (Reuters) - Republic Airways Holdings said on Tuesday it still plans to shed its Frontier unit by June or July, depending on whether a sales agreement is reached. Indianapolis-based Republic, which operates regional carriers Republic Airlines...

Richie Havens, the New York City folk singer thrust by circumstance onto center stage as the opening act of Woodstock, the legendary 1969 music festival, has died. He was 72. He died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City, N.J., according...

Helen B. Wolfe, an outspoken advocate of women's rights who also had been a member of the faculty of McDaniel College for more than a decade, died March 5 from cancer at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster. She was 79. With a head of thick...