Challenges by Queens Democrats against the borough's two longtime incumbent Republican state senators, Frank Padavan and Serphin Maltese, pushed by Governor Eliot Spitzer, are taking shape for the elections slated for 2008. More...

After months of testing the waters, Fred Thompson made his long-awaited entry into the presidential race- flat out anti-climactic, from his drab entry on a late-night television talk show to the subdued receptions he received on his early campaign More...

A city agency has sent retired New York City workers a Consumer Alert from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) describing "additional steps that you can take to protect yourself against identity theft" that might possibly occur from the theft of a l More...

Dear Savvy Senior, Can you offer some tips on protecting seniors from financial scams? My next door neighbor's elderly parents were recently swindled out of several thousand dollars and I want to make sure my own mother More...

Several days before yesterday's observance of the sixth anniversary of the World Trade Center atrocity, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney announced the introduction of sweeping and comprehensive legislation to address the mounting impacts of that atta More...

The story of George Tomov, one of the speakers at this month's Community Board 2 meeting, did not diminish the other accounts of last month's flood damage in Woodside, but it was unusual and poignant. More...

Press For More Child Health Insurance Governor Eliot Spitzer and the state's lawmakers in Washington continued to press for more child health insurance coverage after the Bush presidential administration denied the governor's request to expand cov More...

Get into a conversation with a longtime Queens resident and you're likely to discover a subscriber of the Long Island Star-Journal, a daily paper that informed the community about local and world news until it folded in 1968. More...