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Berkshire County Sheriff Tom Bowler is running for re-election.

Linda visited with people at the Inaugural Celebration today who had come to witness President Clinton's second swearing-in and Inaugural address. Many of the visitors to the nation's capital waited up to three hours in the cold, just for a glimpse of the President. She talked with a family from South Carolina, which was having an ongoing argument about which celebration would be better...the Inaugural, or the one in New Orleans preparing for this weekend's Super Bowl...and also found some surprise foreign visitors, including General Aleksandr Lebed of Russia. (6:00) ((ST

Daisann (day-ZANN) McLane reports on last week's annual Carnival in Port Au Prince, Haiti. In 1990, the group Boukman Eksperyans (BOOK-mahn ex-pair-YANS) first brought overt politics into the music of the annual street party known as Carnival. Now politics are an expected part of music at Carnival. The most notable political song this year was the group Koudjae's (KOO-jai) dig at the democratically elected government. But the most appealing song was by a group of Haitian American teenagers calling themselves King Posse. (6:00) ((ST

In light of newly-leaked documents on its membership, we look at Oath Keepers, a group charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

David Kertzer is the author of The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism (Knopf). In the book he focuses on the time period from Napoleon to Hitler, and how "traditional" Catholic forms of dealing with Jews became transformed into modern anti-Semitism. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and a professor of anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University. He's also the author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara about a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Italy who in 1858 was taken from his family, secretly baptized, and sent to live in a Catholic household.

Burlington Police say they responded to reports of gunshots Sunday might near Roosevelt Park in the city’s Old North End.

The Plattsburgh Common Council will consider revising its snow emergency policy during Thursday’s meeting.

Officials with the North Country Chamber of Commerce are watching closely after members of the union representing Canadian border agents voted to authorize a strike.

The proposal would cut the deficit by $2.2 trillion over the next decade, but Republicans do not increase tax margins for the wealthiest Americans, something the president has said is not negotiable.

Crowd funding isn't just for hipster artists anymore. In 2012 alone, users of the site GoFundMe have raised more than $6 million for personal medical causes.