Human skeletal remains have been found on Long Island, New York, authorities said Saturday. The same police department has been involved in the discovery of at least 10 other sets of human remains about 40 miles from the latest site.
A New York medical examiner's office said Saturday that a body discovered this week along a remote stretch of Long Island beach was that of Shannan Gilbert, the missing New Jersey woman whose disappearance led investigators to 10 sets of human remains and the hunt for a possible serial killer.
A 'Bag before the Big Show. Check back Thursday for the U.S. Open seed reports, and don't forget our guide to attending the tournament in New York:
Two young campers were injured early Wednesday when they were attacked by a black bear at Stokes State Forest in northwestern New Jersey.
Police on Wednesday released the names of four women killed when a commercial tour bus ran off I-95 and overturned early Tuesday in Caroline County, Virginia.
The remains of three women found on a remote stretch of beach in Long Island, New York, do not include those of Shannan Gilbert, whose search led to the investigation of a possible serial killer.
updated: Wed Apr 06 2011 02:40:00
After finding out one of the bodies found on a NY beach was not her sister, Sherre Gilbert spoke to HLN's Nancy Grace.
updated: Mon Apr 04 2011 21:18:00
The discovery of three bodies brings the total to eight found on Long Island in what police think are serial killings.
The remains of three additional people were discovered Monday morning near Gilgo Beach on Long Island, according to Richard Dormer, Suffolk County Police commissioner.
Police say human remains found on a New York beach are not those of a missing woman whose search led authorities to the discovery of four dead prostitutes.
Double, double toil and trouble? No, the witches in Macbeth were not referring to the fastest 100% move for the S&P 500 in history. But they might as well be.
Bob Hurley Sr. is about to hit a milestone few basketball coaches on any level have reached: 1,000 victories.
Police have identified the body of a Maine woman found in the bushes of an isolated strip of waterfront property in Long Island, New York, according to a police statement.
Searching for clues to the disappearance of a missing woman, authorities made a grisly discovery: the bodies of four women in various stages of decomposition, stuffed into bushes along an isolated strip of waterfront property on Long Island.
A total of four bodies have been found near a Long Island, New York, beach by authorities searching for a missing person, police said.
updated: Wed Dec 15 2010 05:16:00
Police have found the remains of four people on a secluded Long Island beach.
The new judge says her style is a mix between "tough, easy and fair"
NBA referees are going to be blowing their whistles like rush-hour traffic cops early this season: one tweet to penalize a foul, and another to penalize the reaction of the fouling player. It is part of the league's newly enhanced "respect for the game" agenda, and while it is sorely needed, it is also going to be a disaster.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With its lush grass, circular driveway and brick buildings, the main campus of Wagner College presented a tidy, idyllic picture on a sun-dappled afternoon earlier this month. The small school (undergraduate enrollment: 2,281) is known for its theater program, and the weather was so nice that you half-expected the kids from Fame to bust through the doors and break out into a dance number on the manicured lawn.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Some 30 hours before he was formally inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (which should've happened a couple of years ago by the way), 63-year-old Bob Hurley Sr. was doing what he was born to do and which he has done with as much success as almost anyone -- preside over chaos. Kids were running this way and that, basketballs were flying off backboards and walls, and Hurley himself lent a note of informality to the proceedings by walking around holding in his arms his sixth and youngest grandchild, Gabriel.
It's a beautiful August morning in Jersey City, New Jersey. I have just finished my regular jog around Liberty State Park. No matter how often I stand here at my favorite spot to stretch, I can only marvel that this is actually my neighborhood and my view.
When to spend and when to save on eight essentials that affect your health every day.
Q: My wife and I want to buy a home but can't put 20% down. Is borrowing from my 401(k) a good idea? Joe (last name withheld), Charleston, S.C.
Jon, I don't mean to pick on you because many writers made the same mistake, but I seem to remember you writing just before the 2008 U.S. Open that Fed might struggle to ever pass Sampras's mark and that his time at the top was over. Any regrets about that now? --Paul Collins, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Evan Chandler's son was paid a reported $15 - $20 million to end his claims that he was sexually abused
The man who accused pop star Michael Jackson of molesting his son in 1993 killed himself in his New Jersey condo earlier this month, police said.
Three weeks ago, St. Peter's Prep (Jersey City, N.J.) junior tailback Savon Huggins and the Marauders hosted Garden State power St. Joseph's (Montvale).
Four police officers and a suspect were shot in a raid for firearms and narcotics early Thursday in central New Jersey, a local prosecutor's office said.
On-the-job fatalities dropped in 2008 in part because the recession kept millions of workers at home, according to a government report released Thursday.
A Jersey City, New Jersey, police officer shot in the line of duty last week died of his injuries Tuesday, a day before his 38th birthday, a spokeswoman for the city's mayor announced.
A Jersey City, New Jersey, police officer shot in the line of duty last week is not expected to survive, a police official said Monday.
A gunman wearing "priest clothing" sparked a shootout with police in Jersey City, New Jersey, early Thursday that ended with five officers wounded and the shooter and another suspect dead, authorities said.
updated: Thu Jul 16 2009 22:18:00
Two suspects are dead after five police officers were wounded in a shootout in New Jersey.
One FSB 100 company has grown by grabbing a giant share of something almost nobody else wants to touch -- garbage. Not just any trash, but gooey oil-refinery sludge, contaminated Superfund mystery material and radioactive protective clothing. American Ecology specializes in processing (and in some cases recycling) some of the nastiest hazardous waste there is, including low-level radioactive waste and PCBs.
Alfa Demmellash grew up on less than a dollar a day, and against the backdrop of torture and murder. But these days she's living the American dream and helping others do the same.
updated: Fri Jun 26 2009 12:56:00
Ethiopia native Alfa Demmellash is helping low-income entrepreneurs in New Jersey start or grow their businesses.
When people hear the name "Sysco" they probably think of Cisco, the San Jose-based maker of routers and other high-tech gear. But Houston-based food distributor Sysco, which each year ships 21.5 million tons of produce, meats, prepared meals, and other food-related products, is pretty technologically savvy too.
Less than a month after an unannounced government-sanctioned lower-Manhattan flyover frightened New Yorkers, the Federal Aviation Administration turned down a U.S. Navy unit's request to fly a military plane 3,000 feet over the Hudson River in New York on Monday morning.
It's only fitting that Laura Sen is always thinking about keeping costs low, even when she's traveling. After all, Sen has spent the bulk of her career with BJ's Wholesale Club, the discount chain where she started 20 years ago as vice president of logistics. Even then, she jokes, her life on the road was decidedly unglamorous.
A White House official apologized Monday after he OK'd a large aircraft to fly low over Manhattan -- a sight that sent people reminded of 9/11 running in fear.
It took six months and hundreds of resumes, but Josh Hager has finally landed a job.
When Joanne Rosario's youngest child, Michael, was 12 years old, she would wake up at 7 a.m. most Saturdays, open the door to his room, only to see an empty bed and begin to worry where her son had gone. "Drug dealers were in the hallways, homeless people were lined against the wall," Joanne says. "I'd worry, but when I looked down from our 12th floor apartment, there he was dribbling a ball on the Lincoln Park court."
It's midmorning of a cool May day on the California coast. Standing amid rolling fairways and tightly trimmed greens, entrepreneurs Jared and Brooke Zaugg are basking in the glory of their creation, not a golf tournament but a celebration of machinery. Today the Ocean Course links, wrapped around the Ritz-Carlton hotel at Half Moon Bay, are home to the third annual Legend of the Motorcycle Concours d'Elegance.
My politics, my personality, even my religion have been ripped in this latest collection of howdy do's. I'll give voice to the first two, but please accept my apologies, Holy Joe. We're keeping you mute today.
He was not put on a pedestal when he enrolled at St. Anthony in Jersey City, N.J. His long, lean frame needed to fill out. His internal fire flickered, but it needed kindling. In signing on to play for Bob Hurley's basketball program four years ago, Dominic Cheek agreed to shave his braids and that no tattoos would appear on his skin. On weekends, the 6-foot-6, 195-pound swingman would have to phone the white-haired disciplinarian from his family's landline phone by 9 p.m. Much would be sacrificed, but the shooting form -- that lock-and-load release -- would make him a star. "The shot was always there," says Joe Whalen, the St. Anthony athletic director who coached Cheek with the Jersey City Boys & Girls Club as a youth.
A week ago, Joshua Hager was despondent. Laid off by a mortgage company, he has looked for jobs ranging from bank teller to risk analyst. He was sending out as many as 10 resumes a day but was getting barely a nibble from employers or recruiters.
St. Peter's College locked down its campus Wednesday after receiving e-mails saying bombs were planted in campus buildings, authorities said
Ten members of an international smuggling ring have been arrested and charged with paying more than $500,000 in bribes to smuggle millions of dollars in fake designer goods from China to the United States, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
With instate competition pairing top teams in playoff situations these days, the rankings continue to shuffle.
Hats off to the Hawklets of Rockhurst (Kansas City, Mo.) for taking home their Class 6 state championship last weekend.
Waterless urinals! Plants on the roof! Recycled carpets! Since the first U.S. building was formally certified as good for the planet in 2000, "green" building has gone mainstream. So far about 900 projects have been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, a Washington, D.C., trade association; another 13,000 are in the pipeline.
Bond prices climbed Tuesday as stocks sold off on credit concerns, after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting failed to give investors many clues on future rate moves.
An old anti-tank missile launcher was found Friday on a lawn in Jersey City, just across the river from lower Manhattan
Police and FBI agents are investigating the discovery of an empty rocket launcher tube on the front lawn of a Jersey City, New Jersey, home, FBI spokesman Sean Quinn said.
The FBI is investigating anonymous mailed threats against the Goldman Sachs investment firm but does not consider the warnings to be of "high credibility"
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The PGA Tour's Barclays tournament will be played at the recently completed Liberty National course in 2009.
The two leading rivals for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, both picked up endorsements Monday from state and local officials in New York and New Jersey, two key states participating in next year's February 5 coast-to-coast primary showdown.
These days just about everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. Here are eight people - women, immigrants, corporate refugees, minorities, even kids - who got in on the action. Here's what they have to say about it.
Camille Young, 35 BaGua Juice
Each semester, credit cards prove be a dangerous temptation for many college students short on funds.
For the past five years, the housing bulls have been trotting out one rational-sounding argument after another to explain why the boom made perfect economic sense.
A 13-year-old girl who text-messaged her mother this week to say she had been abducted was returned to her family and New Jersey home Thursday evening.
Sitting in a spacious office overlooking his firm's large trading floor, Ralph Acampora is worried. The head of research at Knight Capital Group says he's been having sleepless nights fretting about the stock market, despite its New Year's bounce. There's a long list of things that concern him -- mainly abstract concepts such as price patterns, trading volume, and seasonal trends -- that together make for a particularly gloomy forecast: Acampora is predicting the Dow will drop by as much as 20%, or as low as 8,400, this year. "At some point in 2006, we'll have a decline," he insists.
Here are some rulings of Judge Samuel Alito from his service on the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals since 1990:
The body of Officer Robert Nguyen, who died along with another officer Christmas night when their truck plunged off a drawbridge and into the Hackensack River, was found Thursday afternoon.
A police vehicle carrying two officers drove off a drawbridge and plunged into the Hackensack River, apparently killing both men, Jersey City Police Chief Robert Troy said Monday.
Divers from state and federal agencies searched Sunday for two police officers whose emergency vehicle drove off a drawbridge and plunged into the Hackensack River in New Jersey outside Jersey City, an official said.
Millions of New York City commuters found new ways around town amid a transit strike that brought the country's largest public transportation system to a grinding halt. CNN.com asked readers to e-mail their travel stories. Here are a few of their responses, some of which have been edited:
It's a brilliant blue September afternoon. Paul Fireman is standing on the final tee of the soon-to-open Liberty National Golf Club in New Jersey. The hole is a 480-yard par-4. Dead ahead is the Ma...
How are individuals affected when the Federal Reserve raises interest rates?
Treasury prices rose Friday, boosted by a steep drop in a U.S. consumer sentiment reading and a safety bid spurred by brief evacuations of a New Jersey postal facility and two U.S. Senate office buildings.
From Robert Steers' midtown Manhattan office, you get a skyscraper's-eye view of the city. The streets fan out all the way south to the Brooklyn Bridge and east to the shimmery gray of the East Riv...
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Picture the Merrill Lynch trading floor in mid-September--a maze of cubicles and corridors jammed full of traders and salesmen, many seated less than a foot apart. Some are forced to stand. There i...
When it comes to real estate, location is, of course, everything. So it's no surprise that on the first day of trading following the World Trade Center attacks, stocks of real estate investment tru...
Tim Gill, 47 Co-founder of Quark
It all started with holiday leftovers. Just after Thanksgiving in the fall of 1953, C.A. Swanson & Sons, a poultry producer, found itself with a catastrophic surplus: 260 tons of unsold turkey meat...
The next time you come up with a bright idea on the job, don't just hit the dimmer switch. That flicker in your brain may be worth good money. Just ask Lee Nelson, 46, of Tulsa (pictured below righ...
A renewed turf war has broken out between New York City and towns in Connecticut and New Jersey intent on siphoning off its jobs. It's symptomatic of unceasing job relocation auctions nationwide.
In the rancorous debate over health-care reform, the American Medical Association -- representing almost half of the nation's 653,000 doctors -- has opposed President Clinton's plan, which would re...
An overlooked consequence of President Clinton's ongoing efforts to boost world trade is that global investing will emerge as one of the great opportunities of the 1990s. And you can go global in y...
Developing a huge condominium complex on New York Harbor is the most mundane thing Paul Bucha has ever done. But at 45, Bucha can make do with a few less thrills. A Vietnam war hero and later chief...
Scared of stocks and frightened of the volatile bond market? Then you can do well merely by benching your cash on the sidelines while waiting to get back in the game. The recent rise in interest ra...
Few institutions offer a more dramatic lesson in how not to run an endowment than New York University. Its star-studded board of trustees is led by CBS Chief Executive Laurence Tisch, an outspoken ...
IN THE THICK undergrowth of federal spending, subsidies to business and state and local governments are some of the hardiest forms of plant life--and the most in need of weeding. They will have cli...
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