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Tompkins Cortland Community College's extension office in downtown Ithaca. (Megan Zerez/WSKG)

Community colleges budget for slower recovery from pandemic

"There are only so many projects that we can take on," Talbot said. "[Tompkins and Cortland counties] do not have deep pockets, neither one of you."

What it's like serving a life sentence in prison with no chance of release

When Calvin Duncan was 19 years old, he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Now, he's helping to tell the stories of other men who have found themselves behind bars for life.

Tourists take a photo by Ukrainian flag by the boulevard in a famous Black Sea resort in Odessa, Ukraine as the country surpasses 6 months after Russian invasion on September 3, 2022. The tourists are not allowed enter the public sand beach due to the danger caused of the land mines and other explosives. (Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

With Ukraine at war, officials hope to bring tourism back to areas away from fighting

The war displaced millions of Ukrainians. But officials are trying to entice citizens to travel around the country for pleasure again.

FILE - Celina Washburn protests outside the Arizona Capitol to voice her dissent with an abortion ruling, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Phoenix. An Arizona judge ruled the state can enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years. The law was first enacted decades before Arizona became a state in 1912. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

An Arizona judge won't suspend her ruling that halted abortions in the state

An Arizona judge on Friday declined to put her order that allowed enforcement of a pre-statehood law making it a crime to provide an abortion on hold.

Aerial view of a large-scale fire in a recently deforested area of the Amazon rainforest along Highway BR 319, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. September 25, 2022. Photo: Bruno Kelly/NPR

Brazil's election could determine the fate of the Amazon after record deforestation

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection in Sunday's vote, forest clearing and wildfires have surged in the Amazon.

Milk Street: L.A.'s Best Tacos (Ep 601)

Fried Shrimp Tacos with Salsa Roja Start to finish: 11⁄4 hoursMakes 8 tacos At Mariscos Jalisco, Raul Ortega’s food truck in the Boyle Heights area of Los…

An electoral worker installs an electronic voting machine during the assembly of a polling station at a school in preparation for the general election, in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Brazilians head to polls on Oct. 2 to elect a president, vice president, governors and senators. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazilians go to the polls, with Lula tipped to beat Bolsonaro

More than 120 million Brazilians will vote Sunday in a highly polarized election that could determine if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world's fourth-largest democracy.

Lauren Reh, left, Alicia Mierke and Sue Ann Cornwell embrace during during a 1 October Sunrise Remembrance ceremony at Clark County Government Center Amphitheater in Las Vegas, Nevada on Oct. 1, 2022.

Las Vegas mass shooting survivors turn to each other to find strength through tragedy

Five years on, survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history are still struggling with the psychological and physical fallout.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - SEPTEMBER 20: Members of a brigade of the company LUMA work restoring energy on September 20, 2022 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The island awoke to a general island power outage after Hurricane Fiona struck this caribbean nation two days ago. LUMA Energy was awarded the goverments contract to manage the countries electricial distribution grid. (Photo by Jose Jimenez/Getty Images)

More than 100,000 clients in Puerto Rico are still without power 2 weeks after Fiona

The storm made landfall on Sept. 18 and knocked out power to the entire island. Nearly a third of customers in Puerto Rico's westernmost municipalities are still waiting for electricity.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 17: Sacheen Littlefeather on stage at AMPAS Presents An Evening with Sacheen Littlefeather at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on September 17, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Sacheen Littlefeather, who gave Marlon Brando's Oscar rejection speech, dies at 75

In 1973, Littlefeather provided one of the most dramatic moments in Oscar history: Offering Brando's regrets for refusing the award because of Hollywood's treatment and portrayal of Native Americans.

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