Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass Headline Family-Friendly Event The Long Island Bluegrass Festival will take place at Tanner Park on Kerrigan Road , near the Great South Bay, in Copiague , NY on Saturday, Aug. 16, from noon-8 p.m. The family-friendly festival — for which admission is $10 for adults and free for children under 12 — also will include workshop tents, plenty of opportunities for jamming, music and activities for children, crafts, and a food court. Attendees are encouraged t

Wait a minute. We kissed cassette tapes goodbye years ago, didn’t we? The New York Times reports that the once-mighty tape received the final nail in its coffin this week—never mind that most people thought that particular coffin was long since buried—when a major New York publisher released its last audio book in cassette format. Audio books had been the last bastion of the cassette, perhaps in part because the majority of American cars on the road still have built-in tape decks—though obvious

He was the kid wanted by all the Premier League big guns, with Manchester United and Arsenal heading the queue. Not much has changed for Aiden McGeady.

Eva Kellogg vanished following lunch. Not only didn’t her classmates notice but her teacher didn’t catch the empty chair. Eva was a student in Mrs. Spateholts’ Sixth Grade at Cuba Elementary School. I met Eva many years earlier when we were in the same classroom, Mrs. Hillman’s First Grade. September, 1968. The little girl was just like any other first grader, full of energy and laughter and an open road ahead. Her family, we didn’t know it then, was grindingly poor. Her parents married youn

A man accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter and posing as a member of the Rockefeller clan may have planted false clues that he planned to flee the country in a yacht, authorities said Wednesday.