Kevin Kelly

Not-for-profits need contracts The Suffolk County Legislature's timely approval of contracts does not, unfortunately, result in prompt contracting for not-for-profit organizations that deliver essential services to our most vulnerable citizens ["Nassau's...

By ALEX WRIGHT New York Times News Service MONS, Belgium-- On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny...

With 13 people killed in building accidents so far this year and allegations of lax construction oversight, Department of Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster stepped down Tuesday after leading the agency through six of New York's busiest development...

About four years ago, two Suffolk real estate agents went to Florida to build homes. What followed turned into a legal mess: They have been accused of stealing money. They have accused a contractor-partner of cheating them of money and customers. And...

Two Long Islanders must pay out more than $1.7 million after siphoning money from their home-building business in Florida, leaving contractors unpaid and customers with liens instead homes, a civil jury there has decided. Richard Parisi, 56, owner broker...

They look like slots, they play like slots, they pay out like slots, and they have proliferated for years under a legal loophole. But with Maryland girding for a debate over expanding state-sanctioned gambling, top lawmakers said yesterday that they...

There are some who might take it as a warning when the cast of Mad Cow's holiday cabaret makes its entrance, singing "Here We Come a Wassailing." The shopping malls and elevators haven't played that particular tune to death just yet, but you know from the...

Adrian Griffin had never heard of a "wind-powered camera," but he's a consummate pro, and he played along. The Bulls forward and nine-year NBA veteran looked into the lens, praised his coaches and gave props to his teammates. It was a routine TV...

On recent evening, Margaret Cooper led a book discussion on The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. "Raise your hand if you enjoyed the book," said Cooper, the children's librarian at the Elkridge library branch. Everyone raised a hand. Then Cooper...

He shuffles into his seat near the back of the House of Delegates chamber, a quiet, eccentric man, occasionally rising to explain a bill in his gravelly, barely comprehensible voice. Low-profile, he may appear, but Del. Joseph F. Vallario Jr., chairman...

"Swimming Upstream" concerns a likable, athletic Rhode Island 17-year-old (Matt Czuchry) with a talent for writing who looks ahead to a bright future despite his surly, distant alcoholic father (Michael Moriarty), who carries within him dark secrets...

On a September day 4 1/2 years ago, nearly 1,100 ninth-graders — a little giddy, a little scared — arrived at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys. They were fifth-generation Americans and new arrivals, straight arrows and gangbangers,...