NEW YORK - Deborah Reeve got a cold, a cough and a fever that wouldn’t go away. It was more than two years after she had left recovery efforts at ground zero. A month later, the nonsmoker was diagnosed…

Ohio judge slaps down Novato’s Brayton Purcell 
An Ohio judge has barred the Novato-based law firm Brayton Purcell from an asbestos lawsuit, saying the firm deliberately misled the court.

In My View ; Voice of the North 
By Dave Anderson CANCER: The very word is ugly. It stops you in your tracks and no matter how much progress we make in combating it, it still stalks our land.