It’s a new year, and we asked Times Union staffers, librarians, business owners and readers like you to recommend their ...

A second suspect, Randarriuz Dewberry, had been arrested for a 2024 East Texas shooting that killed 17-year-old Jayden Polk.

From gripping thrillers, witty satires and poignant epics to captivating histories and juicy memoirs, 2025 was full of great books. Read on for 30 of our favorites. The latest from the Pulitzer ...

Times Union illustration by Maria M. Stoodley -- For Donna Liquori Bibliofiles column on going one week without reading any books. Illustration of Donna thinking about her love of books. For 12/23/07 ...

Late Seinfeld and The Middle actor Pat Finn celebrated his 35th wedding anniversary with his wife, Donna Crowley Finn, only three months before his death at age 60 in December 2025. The couple often ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss ...

Thomas E. Dewberry, who served in the Maryland House of Delegates and was later a Maryland administrative law judge, died of multiple complications related to heart disease and pneumonia Dec. 7 at ...

Sophie Kinsella, the English author of the successful “Shopaholic” book series that was adapted into the 2009 film “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” has died. She was 55. As the BBC reported, Kinsella — ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

Donna Esther Book died peacefully in the early morning hours on November 18, 2025 while on at home hospice in Indialantic, Florida. Born February 16, 1941 in Pontiac Michigan to Robert and Helma ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a vocalist for the Grateful Dead during the 1970s and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, has died at the age of 78. Godchaux-MacKay passed away on Sunday ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the only woman to have graced The Grateful Dead's lineup, has died at 78. The singer died at a hospice on Sunday, Nov. 2, in Nashville after a "lengthy struggle with cancer ...