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Storm volunteers mingle with stars at Glamour fest
Sandra Kyong Bradbury was star struck. She had just spied Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a few feet away. "How can you top that?" asked ...
Verizon to pay $8.5 billion dividend to its owners
Verizon Wireless said Monday that it will pay a dividend of $8.5 billion next month to its owners, Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC.
Study: US judges' criminal caseloads vary widely
Federal judges across the nation are shouldering criminal caseloads that vary widely in size, sometimes even among judges in the same courthouse, ...
NJ storm victims scrambling to find rental homes
Irene Cramer threaded her Mercury Mountaineer around fallen branches, slowing down in front of a squat white ranch to see if, maybe, it could be the ...
Gas rationing, shortage fray nerves in NYC
A gasoline shortage caused by Superstorm Sandy forced 1970s-era rationing on New Yorkers Friday, adding a fuel-gauge obsession to their frayed nerves ...
Final NJ schoolyard slayings defendant convicted
The final defendant in a brutal schoolyard attack that killed three college-bound friends and left a fourth seriously wounded was convicted on Friday, ...
Questions and answers on the gasoline crisis
Many drivers in New York and New Jersey are still struggling to find gasoline nearly two weeks after Superstorm Sandy battered the region's energy ...
'Disaster after the disaster': Unwanted donations
Superstorm Sandy has brought out generosity far and wide in the biggest U.S. relief effort for the American Red Cross and other groups since Hurricane ...
Claims about flood-damaged cars aren't true
In the days since Superstorm Sandy, an alarming prediction has flashed across the Internet: Hundreds of thousands of flood-damaged vehicles will ...
FEMA sending manufactured housing to Sandy zones
The federal government is moving manufactured housing into areas in New York and New Jersey that were hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy, the Federal ...
Frustration mounts over lingering power outages
Vincent Pina finally saw a couple of utility trucks coming down his street Thursday and started to wave in anticipation. But they just cruised past ...
New storm bears down on Sandy-battered NYC, NJ
A nor'easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter ...
Coughlin: Obama back at White House, now Giants?
When the New York Giants visited the White House in June in the heart of the political campaign, coach Tom Coughlin said the Super Bowl champions ...
In states hit by Sandy, voters find ways to polls
Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters drove Bob Mackie from his home on Long Beach Island, N.J., but nothing was going to stop him from voting Tuesday.
Good news for coast: Nor'easter to weaken
Weather experts had good news for beleaguered northeast coastal residents Tuesday: A new storm that threatened to complicate Hurricane Sandy cleanup ...
NJ man swept away by Sandy left behind note
Nearly naked and soaking wet, a New Jersey man who took refuge in a stranger's house after he was swept away by Superstorm Sandy left behind a note ...
Springsteen, Jay-Z put the pop in Obama rally
Someone has to introduce the president. On Monday, the final day of the presidential campaign, President Barack Obama, however, didn't bring along an ...
Utility workers face tasks monumental and mundane
For utility crews racing to restore power to residents of this waterfront city that have been sitting in the dark for a week, the task is both mundane ...
Relief at pump ahead for NY area drivers
Drivers in the New York area may soon get relief from long lines and higher gas prices. A week after Superstorm Sandy hit the area, the price of gas ...
States scramble to help displaced residents vote
One storm-battered New Jersey county was delivering ballots to emergency shelters Monday while New York City was lining up shuttle buses to ferry ...
Where will housing be found for Sandy's victims?
Government leaders are turning their attention to the next crisis unfolding in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: finding housing for potentially tens ...
NJ Gov. Christie: Call from The Boss made me weep
New Jersey's famously tough-talking governor finally got a hug from his longest-running unrequited love. Speaking Monday at a briefing on storm ...
Nor'easter threatens weather-weary East Coast
A week after Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast, wiping out entire communities, residents were bracing for yet another potentially damaging ...
Post Sandy, manic Monday begins for commuters
Commuters streaming into New York City on Monday endured long waits and crowded trains, giving the recovering transit system a stress test a week ...