Photos, letters and memorials dedicated to 9/11 victims were lost when Superstorm Sandy washed over the beachside neighborhoods of Breezy Point and Rockaway in Queens, N.Y., compounding the tragedy for many of the families that lost loved ones.
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Busy cancer patient Valerie Harper leads a class of 12 amateur hoofers in the upcoming 17th season of “Dancing With the Stars.”
Residents in the tough Cleveland neighborhood where three women were secretly imprisoned for a decade reacted with scorn and grim satisfaction Wednesday after Ariel Castro hanged himself in his cell barely a month into a life sentence.
President Barack Obama’s request for speedy congressional backing of a military strike in Syria advanced Wednesday toward a showdown Senate vote, hours after the commander in chief left open the possibility he would order retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack even if Congress withheld its approval.
A fight inside a Houston-area high school escalated into a series of stabbings on Wednesday that killed a 17-year-old student and wounded several others, sheriff’s officials said.
A young, idealistic rebel from a desert planet seeks to fight an unjust, tyrannical emperor with a space station capable of destroying planets. “Star Wars,” the 1977 film? Not quite.
Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning is seeking a presidential pardon for sending reams of classified information to WikiLeaks, a leak she says was done “out of a love for my country and sense of duty to others,” according to documents released Wednesday.
McDonald’s Corp. says a revamped version of its Dollar Menu that includes items priced at $5 could be launched nationally this year.
Now that Detroit has become the biggest U.S. municipality to declare bankruptcy, it’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s turn to tout a comeback spurred by a stadium for a suburban fan base financed with help from city taxpayers. Snyder approved a plan to put public money toward a $450 million downtown arena on behalf of the the National Hockey League’s Red Wings and their billionaire owners.
The man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade before one escaped has been found dead and is believed to have committed suicide, a prison official said.
As cars become more like PCs on wheels, what’s to stop a hacker from taking over yours?
The man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade before one escaped has been found dead and is believed to have committed suicide, a prison official said.
The Miss America pageant is back in the city where it began, six years after spurning the city for Las Vegas.
Awkward. The New Jersey election campaign between Gov. Chris Christie and rival state Sen. Barbara Buono just went there. He says she mocked his weight with a remark about him “frolicking on the beach,” but she says there’s no such undertone to her campaign rhetoric.
In a case that some see as a complex double standard surrounding the N-word, a federal jury awarded $30,000 in punitive damages Tuesday after finding that a black manager’s four-minute rant was hostile and discriminatory. The jury awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages.