Dow plunges on sour retail sales, tight credit
Wall Street is plunging again, with the Dow Jones industrials average sinking more than 500 points as investors agonize over the faltering economy.
Talk about second chances: Eighty-one-year old Peter Matthiessen has received a National Book Award nomination for "Shadow Country," an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s.
Laurie Halse Anderson, who lives in Mexico, Oswego County, has just learned that her historical novel, "Chains" has been nominated in the Young People's Literature category for the National Book Award.
