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Continuing school shootings around the country are making some parents afraid to send their kids to school. We're seeing the impact of that kind of fear here in the North Country where threats against schools have caused closings and lockdowns.After the recent shootings in Florida and Texas many local districts are considering tightening their security measures, hiring armed security officers, some adding funds to their budgets, talking with local police. This raises a lot of questions about what works to keep kids safe and how we pay for it.

Jessica Laurel Kane has always been a writer, but it wasn't until she became pregnant with her son in 2011, a year after she relocated to Brant Lake in the Lake George area from Brooklyn - that she started having ideas for children's stories. All her previous writing had been adult non-fiction, what she describes as for "dark, isolated, grown-up people."

The VA in Florida has begun offering telehealth programs in dance, visual art, and music. The programs link therapists with veterans in their homes.

The search continues for a 14-month-old Owen Hidalgo-Colderon, whose mother's body was found in western New York last Wednesday.

A federal trust has spent more than seven years cleaning up one of America's most toxic industrial sites, the former General Motors plant in Massena on the banks of the St. Lawrence River.The $130-million cleanup is on track to be completed within a year. Now the task is to find companies to invest in the property and create jobs. Some have already expressed interest, including cryptocurrency mining firms.

"He said, I would have voted for Trump. There was silence and everyone's jaw dropped," one Democrat recalled.

Memorial Day is set aside to remember those who died in military service. But a group of military veterans in Florida works all year to commemorate their comrades who died with no family by their side.

It sounds simple, right? But being realistic about the space a slender transplant will need as it grows to maturity, and keeping to the space recommendations isn't.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called in Democratic Party stalwarts Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden to endorse him as he received the overwhelming support of delegates Thursday at the state Democratic Convention on Long Island.

Trailhead parking lots and interior campsites in popular areas will likely reach capacity early, so this weekend would be a good time to visit less popular areas of the Adirondack Park.