One night shortly after Thanksgiving last year, a deeply crummy mind-set I'd taken on went though an instantaneous reversal. As if a magician had said, "Presto," the New York City landscape likewise flipped from seedy to radiant.
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Linda Lewis steps inside her dining room, opens a drawer and shuffles through six DVD cases. It's shortly after 7 p.m. on a recent weeknight and she offers one disclaimer before slipping a shiny disc labeled The Nightmare: Part II into the player. "My husband and I usually only play it to entertain visitors during halftime," she said. "I'm not a fan of some of the songs' words."
The Carolina Hurricanes recalled center Brandon Sutter for the game against the New York Rangers on Monday night.
A small plane crashed in dense woods in southeastern Louisiana early Saturday, killing all three people aboard, a spokesman for the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office said.
A bus carrying the Albany River Rats flipped onto its side on slick roads in western Massachusetts early Thursday, injuring four players and the minor league hockey team's radio commentator.
New York Gov. David Paterson on Friday appointed relatively unknown U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate.
Police closed a section of Interstate 90 in eastern New York on Saturday after a gunman opened fire at a state trooper after a traffic stop, authorities said.
The success of this low-budget movie lies in its appeal to devoutly Christian viewers
Federal officials have a solution that could make comparing graduation rates from state to state, or even school to school, easier and more accurate within the next five years
New York smokers have been sent outside in all kinds of weather, coughed at in disdain, and now they are burdened with the most expensive cigarette taxes in the nation
One night shortly after Thanksgiving last year, a deeply crummy mind-set I'd taken on went though an instantaneous reversal. As if a magician had said, "Presto," the New York City landscape likewise flipped from seedy to radiant.
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Linda Lewis steps inside her dining room, opens a drawer and shuffles through six DVD cases. It's shortly after 7 p.m. on a recent weeknight and she offers one disclaimer before slipping a shiny disc labeled The Nightmare: Part II into the player. "My husband and I usually only play it to entertain visitors during halftime," she said. "I'm not a fan of some of the songs' words."
The Carolina Hurricanes recalled center Brandon Sutter for the game against the New York Rangers on Monday night.
A small plane crashed in dense woods in southeastern Louisiana early Saturday, killing all three people aboard, a spokesman for the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office said.
A bus carrying the Albany River Rats flipped onto its side on slick roads in western Massachusetts early Thursday, injuring four players and the minor league hockey team's radio commentator.
New York Gov. David Paterson on Friday appointed relatively unknown U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate.
Police closed a section of Interstate 90 in eastern New York on Saturday after a gunman opened fire at a state trooper after a traffic stop, authorities said.
The success of this low-budget movie lies in its appeal to devoutly Christian viewers
Federal officials have a solution that could make comparing graduation rates from state to state, or even school to school, easier and more accurate within the next five years
New York smokers have been sent outside in all kinds of weather, coughed at in disdain, and now they are burdened with the most expensive cigarette taxes in the nation
Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed with New York state officials to block access to child pornography
City dwellers across the country are rapidly discovering the appeal of urban beekeeping
Angry about the price of gas? Just imagine paying for gas you don't get.
DENVER -- Andrew Orpik is only 22, but the junior forward for Boston College can still remember when the Frozen Four had the feel of a backwater event.
The New York governor, the vaunted enemy of corruption is accused of patronizing a prostitution ring. Will he survive?
Nick, 16, says ecstasy is rampant in his high school, with kids often mixing the drug with meth and other substances.
A number of entertainers were named in connection with an Albany-based steroid investigation, but they are not part of an ongoing criminal probe
Lex attended the funeral of his best friend in March, playing with the 20-year-old Marine's younger brother away from the crowd. He was beside Cpl. Dustin Lee when Lee was killed in a mortar attack in Falluja.
A deadly winter storm brought snow and sleet to the Northeast on Thursday, while crews in the Plains and Midwest worked to restore power to hundreds of thousands
Since last summer, Sports Illustrated reporters Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim have been investigating an alleged illegal steroid distribution network that has implicated pro athletes. Earlier this year the reporters accompanied federal and state drug enforcement agents on a coordinated raid of an Orlando compound pharmacy and a Jupiter, Fla., "anti-aging" clinic that investigators allege conspired to fraudulently prescribe steroids, human growth hormone and other performance enhancing drugs over the Internet.
ALBANY, N.Y. -- The storyline entering this week seemed interesting but straightforward: Drive to New York's capital city on Wednesday and chronicle the latest pit stops for one-time Sports Illustrated coverboy Felipe Lopez and his head coach, Micheal Ray Richardson, who was once banned by the NBA due to drug problems. Dogged by cameras and attention for most of their careers, the two men were now seeking a small slice of redemption in relative anonymity with the Albany Patroons, a team that had reached the finals of the Continental Basketball Association playoffs.
Storms stampeded throughout the central and southeastern United States on Thursday, leaving at least 11 people dead.
Traveling the back roads of the Hudson Valley and western New England, one often sees houses rendered in an unusual and attractive style. They are mostly clapboard with a distinctive look: a row of very short windows across the entire front of their second stories.
I'm a 50-year-old self-employed man with no children who makes about $60,000 a year after taxes and has $20,000 in an IRA, $100,000 in home equity and $30,000 in debts. What is the fastest way for me build up my retirement fund? - Kevin B., Albany, New York
All 118 passengers and crew were evacuated safely Thursday when a fire broke out in the left wheel well of US Airways Flight 431, officials said.
This May the Supreme Court struck down laws banning direct-to-consumer shipments across state lines by wineries. The court held that Michigan and New York can't bar out-of-state winemakers from shi...
TiVo's stock rallied Tuesday after an analyst at First Albany initiated coverage of the company with a 'strong buy' rating, setting a price target of $16.
Stocks were flat to lower in the early going Monday as investors took in a spate of big merger news and eyed a drop in oil prices.
Technology stocks rose for the fifth straight session Monday, boosted again by chipmakers, while Siebel Systems and Hutchinson Technology soared on positive quarterly earnings forecasts.
A profit warning in the technology sector punished the Nasdaq Thursday, while the Dow and the S&P 500 extended the market's recent pledge to stick to a tight range.
After suffering flu-like symptoms for a long stretch, U.S. stock markets are suddenly looking a lot healthier. How they fare in the coming week could say a lot about whether this is a short-term bounce or a longer-lasting rally.
State and local police in New York and Vermont will soon have instant access to federal counterterrorism data under an FBI-run pilot program that could become a new weapon in the war on terrorism, officials announced Tuesday.
Technology stocks finished mostly lower Friday as mixed results from computer heavyweight Hewlett-Packard Co. weighed on the sector and a report showing a January jump in consumer prices fed inflation fears.
If you order something on the Internet, you probably have to pay shipping costs. But at least you don't have to pay sales tax, right?
The reality: "It's not like work," says Bob Rawlins, who started Duanesburg Skydiving Club, just outside Albany, N.Y., after leaving the Army in 1971. "If I get bored, I kick the pilot in the butt ...
After trailing the most popular growth stocks for more than four years, value stocks have come to life in the past couple of months. The liveliest of all have been cyclicals--companies highly sensi...
It was a simple plan. David Kaczynski wanted to give the $1 million reward he received for turning in his brother, Unabomber Ted, to the victims and families of his brother's crimes. But he was in ...
People spend too much time worrying about the wrong things. Here's the classic stock market example. Investors generally devote most of their energy to guessing which way the overall market is goin...
Who buys lottery tickets? Conventional wisdom has it that it's the poor. Not so, according to Scarborough Research. When the market research firm asked people who earned less than $25,000, "When di...
For most of the past three years, small stocks have had sand kicked in their faces. Then like the proverbial 98-pound weakling, they started pumping up. In the six months that ended Nov. 1, shares ...
In the first half of 1997, the average individual's portfolio grew 9%, according to MONEY's Small Investor Index. That's equivalent to 18.9% on an annual basis--double the average return of the pas...
For more than a year, I've been warning that stocks faced a drop of at least 15%. But the stock market hasn't been listening--share prices have soared over 14% since the beginning of the year. Stoc...
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RIGHT BEFORE THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, this column named the stocks we believed would benefit most from a Clinton victory. Our picks included waste-management businesses such as WMX Technolog...
THE U.S. DOLLAR IS FINALLY SHOWING SOME backbone. After hitting dismal lows in April, the greenback has rallied against many leading foreign currencies--rebounding 19% vs. the Japanese yen, for exa...
Seven of money's 10 best college values are public schools, up from six a year ago. This is great news for students who live in the same states as these schools, because their families will pay bar...
Congratulations. You've done it. You've endured your high school classes, studied hard--well, at least hard enough--and you've not only graduated but also are heading to a college of your choice. A...
WHILE OTHER PUBLICATIONS SIMPLY ATTEMPT TO TELL you which colleges are the strongest academically, we set out to identify the 100 best college buys--the schools that deliver the highest-quality edu...
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No sooner had we shipped our upbeat 1995 Forecast issue three weeks ago than the stock market plummeted 150 points, former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell shook the White House by coppin...
A recent study of companies that repurchased their own shares during the 1980s produced some eye-opening findings that may point the way to big profits. Professionals have long debated whether stoc...
ALBANY -- Brooklyn Assemblyman Daniel Feldman wants to make it against the law to discriminate against fat people. Feldman ((is proposing)) a first-time-ever ban on ''weight and height bigotry'' --...
LONG-TERM INVESTORS can't afford to ignore the 30 multibillion-dollar companies in the Dow Jones industrial average. In addition to accounting for almost one of every four dollars invested in stock...
I have just finished reading your new special publication -- MONEY for Kids, the ''stay in school'' guide. It is certainly a wonderful contribution to our society. Cheryl Kipp Prairie Village, Kans...
Working after school is one of the verities of American life, right up there with baseball and apple pie. But while there's nothing wrong with teaching Junior the value of a buck or Janie self-reli...
Hundreds of thousands of weekend warriors also wear biker regalia and strut the outlaw strut. These nonconformist men -- and some women too -- jump on their Harleys as soon as the five o'clock whis...
Although interest rates tend to rise as the economy bounces back, depositors shouldn't get their hopes up this time. Rates on certificates of deposit aren't likely to climb significantly anytime so...
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It's party time again on Wall Street, and small investors are rushing to get in on the fun. Blue-chip stocks have gained more than 24% over the past 12 months, and major market indexes recently set...
With well-known blue-chip stocks trading at dizzying prices of 20.8 times estimated 1991 earnings, wise investors are hunting for more down-to-earth values among first-rate regional companies overl...
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A kindred spirit in Albany wrote in the other day, enclosing a clipping from the New York Times and raising the exact same question to which your correspondent would have gravitated had he seen the...
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More than $3 billion in unclaimed money is just lying in government vaults waiting for the rightful owners to claim it, and if you think none of this loot is yours, think again. These stashes are g...
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''Kindly commandeer a college-level text on genetics,'' plaintively beseeched Keeping Up's senior policy analyst the other day, ''as the present expositor is confessedly hazy about the role played ...
Envisioning a future as proprietors of a bed-and-breakfast inn that could evolve into a lodge for cross-country skiers and biathletes, the Schreiners need counsel on raising the necessary capital. ...
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A group of handicapped hunters and fishermen has filed suit in federal district court in Albany charging that the state is violating their civil rights by prohibiting the use of motor vehicles in w...
Congress may be ready to trim defense spending, but Wall Street has already wielded its ax--the stocks of many defense contractors are down sharply from their recent highs. FORTUNE agrees with the ...
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