Newspaper carriers are sometimes startled by a voice in the dark from a subscriber who’s outside his house waiting for his paper. When Stephanie Weddle delivered papers for the Independent, she was ...

She wrote front-page stories about changes to the city’s animal ordinance and the county’s efforts to clean up an illegal dumping site. She laid out the rest of the week’s 10-page paper: Obituaries on ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — For decades, a carveout in New York’s child labor laws allowed kids as young as 11 to legally partake in the time-honored tradition of a paper route.