April Photos of The Month

Feature

Rabbi Yacov Borenstein of the Town of Poughkeepsie conducts a Birkat Hachamah, or Blessing of the Sun ceremony in the morning of Wednesday, April, 8, 2009, at the Chabad Lubavitch Center on Vassar Road in the Town of Poughkeepsie. The observance celebrates the sun returning to the same position it is believed it was in at the time of its creation. This happens once every 28 years.  (AP Photo/Poughkeepsie Journal, Karl Rabe) 

News

Hostages exit a building near the American Civic Association in downtown Binghamton, N.Y., following a shooting spree by a gunman Friday April 3, 2009. A law enforcement official says the gunman who killed at least 12 people in Binghamton, N.Y., died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (AP Photo/Press & Sun-Bulletin, Rebecca Catlett)