Q. We’ve lived in our split-level house for 40 years, and never had this kind of trouble. My insurance company says I have a basement and my house has four floors. They want to call our first floor a basement . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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7/29/15
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Each night as a child, Connie Roberts stroked her white plastic rosary beads, recited her prayers and curled up in her comfortless bed at the Mount Carmel Industrial School for Girls, in Ireland’s Midlands region. She often heard screams echo through the cavernous institution.
Now 52, Roberts can still hear them in her head. They were, she said, “the worst.”
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By Scott Brinton
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7/22/15
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Q. I got a letter from my village that says my house needs to be lifted, and that it’s mandatory because I was lucky enough to be 50 percent damaged by Sandy.
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By Monte Leeper
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7/22/15
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On July 10, South Carolina finally decided to join the Union for good when it removed the Confederate battle flag from its State House grounds in Columbia, its capital.
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7/15/15
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Even though Justice Antonin Scalia got all “jiggery pokery” on us and referred to the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act as “apple sauce,” sanity prevailed in the nation’s highest court last week.
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7/1/15
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On June 2, 1865, Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signed surrender terms offered by the Union army.
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7/1/15
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A federal judge last Friday sentenced Dave Denenberg, the former Nassau County legislator who pleaded guilty to cheating a law client out of $2.3 million and resigned from office earlier this year, to three months in jail and three months of house arrest.
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By Brian Racow
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6/5/15
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Q. We started working with N.Y. Rising two years ago and have been through three caseworkers. We’re still confused about the program. Our house had about 10 inches of water . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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6/4/15
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In observance of Women’s History Month, we thought it would be fitting to highlight some notable women who were instrumental in shaping the world of communication, especially in the newspaper industry.
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3/26/15
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On March 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received more than 20 standing ovations while delivering an unprecedented speech to a joint session of Congress . . .
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3/12/15
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