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The Town of Owego formally recognized the installation of a commemorative sign at the base of Forest Hill Road honoring ...

OWEGO, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The Town of Owego formally recognized the installation of a commemorative sign at the base of Forest ...

Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

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This January, NHPR marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle disaster with a multi-part series honoring the life, ...

According to her website, Whelan has narrated over 700 books throughout her career. Author Taylor Jenkins Reid has called her ...

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A Christmas melanoma survivor meets a young mother with stage 4 bone cancer and an astronaut-turned-surgeon, revealing an unlikely chain of grace and medical miracles.

For a man who claimed he couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, Stanisław Lem’s writings contain remarkable musical visions – and ...