Stony Brook

After hanging with the night owls at tipoff in Tuesday's win against Norfolk State in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament, Virginia will need to have an early wake-up call for Sunday's second NIT game. U.Va. will tipoff its matchup...

Charles Rosen, the renowned pianist and prolific writer whose award-winning book "The Classical Style" has been read by music students around the world, has died. He was 85. The New York-born musician had been suffering from cancer and died Sunday...

MONDAY'S TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS ++++++++++++++++++++ || Autos || Lucas Oil Off Road: San Bernardino (T) || SPEEDNoon || || Lucas Oil Off Road: Reno (T) || SPEED1 || || M. bask. || Stony Brook@Connecticut (T) || MASN10 a.m. || || Ball State@Indiana (T)...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Lowe’s will be distributing more than 22,000 traditional, family-style Thanksgiving meals from Boston Market to families in the hardest hit communities of Hurricane Sandy. These heat-and-serve dinners...

Audiences who attend performances by Iryna Krechkovsky and Kevin Kwan Loucks not only get to witness a musical partnership, but a partnership in life. Krechkovsky, a violinist, and Loucks, a pianist, are married, which they say works to their advantage...

Liberty University is trying to fill Williams Stadium on Saturday to aid Hurricane Sandy victims. The Flames host Stony Brook, which is on Long Island in New York, at 3 p.m. Saturday. Long Island suffered extensive damage from the effects of Hurricane...

"A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...

Guest artist Michael Powell, tenor trombonist of the American Brass Quintet since 1983, will appear in concertwith the WSU Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, September 20, at 7:30pm, in Miller Concert Hall.  The orchestra’s inaugural performance of the...

When the Hampton Classic Horse Show returns to Bridgehampton, NY, August 26 – September 2, for its 37th year of world-class equestrian competition, shopping and entertainment, it will once again feature one of its most popular attractions, Optimum®...

Pacific bluefin tuna carried radioactivity from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster all the way across the ocean to the shores of California, scientists reported Monday. They didn’t bring much — the levels were far lower...

Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown, who broke the color barrier at the Naval Academy and was its first African-American graduate in 1949, died Tuesday of cancer at Springhouse of Silver Spring Assisted Living. He was 85. "It's important for America to...

Date of birth: Sept. 30, 1953 Hometown: Phoenix, Md. (Baltimore County) Education: Course work in psychology at Brooklyn College in 1973; bachelor’s degrees in psychology, education and social science from State University of New York at Stony...