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Victims of child sexual abuse have filed 20 more claims against Catholic priests in the Diocese of Ogdensburg, which covers the North Country. The suits were filed under New York’s Child Victims Act by two law firms on behalf of “numerous” people.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York is adding eight more states to a travel advisory list for places with high levels of the coronavirus. Visitors from California, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada and Tennessee, will now be required to self-quarantine for two weeks.

While many childcare centers closed back in March, some stayed open, and new programs were even created.

The Plattsburgh and Malone YMCA pivoted to open a childcare program for essential workers, and managed to safely run it for three months. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from their experience.

When it's hot and sticky outside, it's too hot and sticky to cook inside. So, head outdoors to the grill! Tired of the same old burger? Consider one of Chef Curtiss Hemm's favorite grilling season recipes - lamb kefta.

New York's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision outlined what it calls its "reopening" plans for the state prison system at the end of May. In four pages, it goes into the process for phasing staff in, and how visits are still suspended. But one little bullet point in those four pages has become a flashpoint: the announcement that it would transfer around one hundred elderly inmates out of other prisons and up to a prison in the Adirondacks.

North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik attended a small White House briefing with fellow Republicans yesterday over the news that a Russian intelligence agency offered bounties to the Taliban for every confirmed kill of NATO forces in Afghanistan. The revelations came from a New York Times story on Friday, which indicated that the White House knew for a few months and didn’t act.