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OLEAN — For the past dozen years, area children have been treated to visits with Santa, petting zoos, free toys and pony rides at the annual “Day Out ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Cat lovers in Northern California are pouncing at the chance of spending time with feline company at a new cat cafe in Oakland....

NEW YORK (AP) — Special materials are going into the most colorful New York real estate development: 3,550 pounds of royal icing, 700 pounds of candy ...

BOSTON (AP) — "Car Talk" co-host Tom Magliozzi won't be dispensing automotive advice from the grave as some newspapers feared. Magliozzi, who hosted t...

It really is hard to beat freshly baked cookies. Leave aside for a moment the deliciousness of the finished product; the simple act of cooking them ma...

Clark Griswold would be proud. Thanks to advances in lighting technology, suburban dads (and moms) across the country have a lot to choose from when i...

Local hiker Pat Coate’s memorable journey this summer began and ended with mountains in Georgia and Maine. And in between, the Allegany resident’s 2,1...

Designers often surprise their clients by sharing a secret: You can dramatically change the look of a room simply by changing or rearranging the items...

Obviously, there will be pumpkin pie. There's not a lot of debate there. But this is Thanksgiving; one pie simply isn't sufficient. So then comes the ...

We get it. The allure of canned cranberry sauce goes well beyond convenience. There's something about the ridges on the side, about the way it jiggles...

For such a simple dish, creamed spinach can be a pain to make. Most recipes call for some sort of roux-based sauce, such as bechamel. As though we hav...

FLANDERS (AP) — When Brooklyn chef Jason Marcus talks about preparing Long Island duck, he can't help salivating. "There's a great balance between the...

NEW YORK (AP) — It turns out people go to Red Lobster for the seafood. The struggling chain on Monday plans to announce another revamped menu that rem...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Brittany Maynard stuck by her decision. The woman with brain cancer who revived a national debate about physician-assisted suici...

NEW YORK (AP) — That bowl of chocolates for ninjas and ghosts won't cost you more this Halloween. Picking the perfect sweet for your Valentine could. ...

The sale of decorated pumpkin centerpieces will benefit the Mount Irenaeus Franciscan mountain retreat and local breast cancer survivors during an auc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have approved the first vaccine to block a strain of bacteria that has caused sometimes deadly outbreaks o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Institutionalized for more than three decades and largely deaf and mute, Judith Scott found her voice through art, forming intricate s...