President Warren Harding, left, gets ready to golf on the Piping Rock Golf Links on Long Island in 1921. He's with Howard Whitney, second from left, president of the U.S. Golf Association; Percy Pyne and American industrialist J. Leonard Replogle. Presid

With the first real wide-spread snow upon Central New York, snowplow drivers are working overtime to get streets salted and cleared. This year, Syracuse has received around three inches of snow, compared to more than 70 inches last year at the same time.

24 December 2011 Last updated at 06:24 ET Dirty Mavis have had no airplay and have not got a record deal A protest song about the proposed High Speed 2 rail line by a Buckinghamshire band has made it to the top five of a national chart. Oak Tree Lament w

TWO versions of a protest song by a former Carlisle man have reached numbers four and five in the HMV download charts ahead of Coldplay and Bruno Mars. Oak folk: Carlisle-bred Martin Davis (front centre) with his band Dirty Mavis, whose Oak Tree Lament r

A longtime Woodmere eyesore has come down.New owners of the Franklin Place house that was little more than rusted metal and rotting wood had it demolished last month. Residents were concerned that the deteriorating two-floor structure, built in 1903 near

Martin Davis of Dirty Mavis, sings a protest song as HS2 campaigners try to present a petition to Cheryl Gillan's office in Amersham. PERSISTENT protesters from the anti-HS2 movement headed to Cheryl Gillan's constituency office in Amersham again last