This guy is a cut above the rest. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is throwing its 33rd annual “Sakura Matsuri” cherry blossom festival on April 26 and 27. And the fest’s longtime master of ceremonies and ...

Samurai swords are reputed to be among the best ever produced, a fact attested to by the practice of testing the swords on human cadavers, usually those of condemned criminals. My question is, just ...

The state Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation is reviewing a police-involved shooting last week in Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie Town Police responded to a reported assault involving a ...

LE CENTER — Jeff Traxler has long had collections of World War II and other military memorabilia, but a samurai sword he got decades ago in lieu of payment for construction work and displayed for ...

The curved steel blades gleamed in the soft gallery lighting, as sharp and vicious-looking as when each was forged hundreds of years ago. The swords were the primary weapons of the samurai, the ...