A good friend phoned a few days ago with news they have added a new puppy to their family. He and is wife affectionately named the rust colored miniature dachshund “Lucy.” “She’s just a little thing — ...

One hot day in early June, a red-tailed hawk chick perched on the second-floor gutter of a Syracuse University sorority house, whistling plaintively for its parents. The chick had fledged the previous ...