
Fuel shortage means gridlock in lines for gasoline
When it came to fuel supplies and patience, the New York metro area was running close to empty Friday. From storm-scarred New Jersey to parts of ...

Steelers-Giants game to go on as scheduled
The NFL game between the Super Bowl champion New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday will be played despite transportation and power issues ...

APNewsBreak: Cusack developing Rush Limbaugh film
Actor and outspoken liberal John Cusack is developing a movie about conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Cusack's production company said Friday.

Pa.: One last Romney foray for Obama to defend
Rip Scott regrets his 2008 presidential vote for Barack Obama. The 60-year-old real estate company owner is going home to his Republican Party this ...

NJ casinos reopen after 5-day storm shutdown
All but two casinos in Atlantic City planned to be back in business Friday, hours after getting the permission to reopen from Gov. Chris Christie and ...

Singer Aimee Mann debuts 'Sandy' song
Singer Aimee Mann has a new song born of her experience riding out this week's superstorm in a Brooklyn hotel. Called "Sandy" and sung to the tune of ...

Mayor defends move to hold marathon, tempers boil
The Manhattan skyline was expected to be mostly lit for the first time in five days Friday night, a sign of progress undercut by long gas lines and ...

Springsteen pays tribute to storm-damaged NJ coast
New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen says his home state will rebound from the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy. During a stop at the Jordan ...

Christie pushes for faster storm recovery in NJ
In a whirlwind of post-storm decisions that might ruffle some feathers, Gov. Chris Christie announced a string of orders and plans intended to speed ...
Storm-wracked states prepare for Election Day
Election officials were ordering generators, moving voting locations and figuring out how to transport poll workers displaced from coastal areas as ...

Romney & Obama: I'm the real candidate of change
Five days before the election, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama vied forcefully for the mantle of change Thursday in a ...

Storm-crippled NYC subway creaks back into service
Subways started running again in much of New York City on Thursday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy, but traffic at bridges backed up for ...

Battered NJ confronts how to rebuild its shore
In its tear of destruction, the megastorm Sandy left parts of New Jersey's beloved shore in tatters, sweeping away beaches, homes, boardwalks and ...

New York struggles back 2 days after killer storm
Flights resumed, but slowly. The New York Stock Exchange got back to business, but on generator power. And with the subways still down, great numbers ...

NJ's barrier islands are scenes of devastation
New Jersey's delicate barrier islands, long and slender strips of land cherished by generations of sunbathing vacationers and full-time residents ...

Romney says he'll deliver 'real change' if elected
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pledged Wednesday to deliver the "real change" he says his Democratic opponent promised but has not ...

Romney faces scrutiny on aid in storm's wake
There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government. And so it turns out that after Superstorm ...

Another Superstorm casualty: Trick-or-treating
Seventh-grader Samantha Bertolino was especially proud of her Halloween costume this year. She was going to be a vampire, and she really had it ...

Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric
President Barack Obama soberly toured the destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday in the company of New Jersey's Republican governor and ...

Obama to NJ residents: 'We are here for you'
President Barack Obama, swooping in for a somber look at Sandy's storm-whipped destruction, pledged to the hurting people of New Jersey and beyond on ...

Odd politics as Obama, Christie tour storm damage
Here's an image few probably expected to see six days before Election Day: President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — a Republican ...

Who can fix political gridlock? Poll favors Romney
Just about everybody agrees Washington is a gridlocked mess. But who's the man to fix it? After two years of brawling and brinkmanship between ...

Airports and stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated
Two major airports reopened and the New York Stock Exchange got back to business Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen ...

THE RACE: Obama hums a GOP tune: US exceptionalism
Locked in a razor-thin battle for re-election, President Barack Obama is adapting a classic Republican tune: American exceptionalism. "Now is the time ...