The Huntsville Times same changes. The company has since made similar changes to what had been daily newspapers in both Syracuse, New York, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The final daily edition was published on September 30, 2012. The next day was the first time in more than a century that the city of Huntsville had been without a daily newspaper. Patrick McCauley, a native of Alexandria, Louisiana, was the longest-serving editor of the daily "Huntsville Times", a post he filled from 1966 to 1994. A previous editor, Reese Thomas Amis (1888–1964), had mentored McCauley when he was a reporter at "The Times" from 1949
The New York Times September 14, 1857, the newspaper officially shortened its name to The New-York Times. (The hyphen in the city name was dropped on December 1, 1896.) On April 21, 1861, "The New York Times" began publishing a Sunday edition to offer daily coverage of the Civil War. One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials in the "Times" alone. The main office of "The New York Times" was attacked during the New York City Draft Riots. The riots, sparked by the beginning of drafting for the Union Army, began on