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Since their own delegation already votes with the Democrats, progressive Vermonters are trying to influence a key House race in upstate New York.

A company in Texas called Slide Fire says it will resume sales of bump stocks — the controversial device that makes assault rifles even deadlier by boosting the rate of fire. The company suspended sales after bump stocks were used in the Las Vegas shooting in October. But now, days after another mass-shooting in Texas, Slide Fire has announced that it's accepting new orders for the controversial gun accessories.

Scientists are concerned about the risk of chemicals washing around in the flood water in Texas.

American ski racer Bill Demong is going into the Vancouver games as a favorite in Nordic combined. This combination of ski jumping and cross-country has traditionally been dominated by Scandinavian athletes. But not anymore.

New York Gov. David Paterson has unveiled a plan to cut his state's $15 billion budget deficit. The plan includes closing some state prisons and cutting more than 1,300 prison jobs. Many communities rely on the prisons for jobs and worry that the closures will bring high unemployment to already struggling areas.

One of the most-storied racehorses in recent history is being retired. Funny Cide, who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, made one last visit to the winner's circle in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

The families of four U.S. soldiers killed earlier this month in Iraq are still coming to terms with how the men died. At first it was thought they were ambushed; in fact, they were kidnapped from a Karbala compound and executed.

The story of Chester Gillette and the murder of Grace Brown in a remote lake in the Adirondack Mountains is the centerpiece of Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. This was the O.J. Simpson trial of its day. An opera version of the story premieres in New York Friday.

Andrew Goodman, one of the three civil rights activists slain in Mississippi, spent summers with his family in New York's Adirondack Mountains. People in the village of Tupper Lake, N.Y., say Goodman should be remembered as a hero.

Winter arrived early in New York's Adirondack Mountains. The high country is locked in snow and ice. We have a Thanksgiving week postcard from a trek to the summit of Algonquin Mountain.