It sounds like the plot of a crime drama or the scourge of a developing country, but human trafficking is a serious problem in the U.S. and America's children are frequent pawns, experts say.
Three people have been killed after a boat ran aground off Long Island, New York.
If the two forks of Long Island's East End were sisters, the North Fork would undoubtedly be the innocent, modest one.
Wall Street has been on a tear in the past few months, but Main Street is facing a much more jagged road to recovery. While small companies are not cutting staff as quickly as they had been, the job losses continue to mount.
A 26-foot-long dying shark washed ashore Tuesday on a Long Island beach, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation said.
A Long Island, New York, social worker is facing two misdemeanor charges after allegedly posting a sexually suggestive ad on Craigslist that gave interested parties the home phone number of a 9-year-old girl.
DNA test results reveal that a Michigan man is not a Long Island, New York, boy who went missing 54 years ago, according to the FBI.
Gas prices jumped nearly a quarter in the past three weeks, but the trend is unlikely to continue, according to a survey published on Sunday.
"The only way I'm leaving is selling it," she says of her house for which she owes $650,000
Residents say "everyone is talking" about the famous family's stay in Oyster Bay, NY
It sounds like the plot of a crime drama or the scourge of a developing country, but human trafficking is a serious problem in the U.S. and America's children are frequent pawns, experts say.
Three people have been killed after a boat ran aground off Long Island, New York.
If the two forks of Long Island's East End were sisters, the North Fork would undoubtedly be the innocent, modest one.
Wall Street has been on a tear in the past few months, but Main Street is facing a much more jagged road to recovery. While small companies are not cutting staff as quickly as they had been, the job losses continue to mount.
A 26-foot-long dying shark washed ashore Tuesday on a Long Island beach, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation said.
A Long Island, New York, social worker is facing two misdemeanor charges after allegedly posting a sexually suggestive ad on Craigslist that gave interested parties the home phone number of a 9-year-old girl.
DNA test results reveal that a Michigan man is not a Long Island, New York, boy who went missing 54 years ago, according to the FBI.
Gas prices jumped nearly a quarter in the past three weeks, but the trend is unlikely to continue, according to a survey published on Sunday.
"The only way I'm leaving is selling it," she says of her house for which she owes $650,000
Residents say "everyone is talking" about the famous family's stay in Oyster Bay, NY
In one of the technological marvels of our time, the Japanese have put together a website called Smell Club that pinpoints the source of assorted odors around the globe. Surely among the more than 160 nose-crinklers catalogued thus far is the stench of defeat, burnt cars, stupidity and trouble rising from the New Jersey Meadowlands since Sunday afternoon. Not only did the Giants' 23-11 defeat at the hands of their rivals from Philadelphia herald the return of the dreaded Giant Flatulence -- it was redolent of an invitation to the blues.
Charges will not be filed against a 76-year-old man who lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a building where a Hanukkah celebration was under way, police in Long Island, New York, said Friday.
Fourteen people were hospitalized Thursday after an elderly man lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a Long Island building where a Hanukkah festival was under way, police told CNN.
First came the fishermen. Then came the surfers. Now the formerly scruffy enclave of Montauk, at the easternmost point of Long Island, has been colonized by fashion-forward boutiques and hotels that are one-upping the rest of the Hamptons with a refreshingly relaxed sense of style.
From Mexico's Guadalupe Valley to Blue Hill, Maine, these 10 waterfront getaways offer a toast to the good life.
Three swimmers drowned and three were missing Saturday in two days of treacherous ocean currents at Long Island and New York City beaches
A Long Island millionaire was sentenced to 40 months in prison Friday for enslaving two house maids, U.S. Attorney Robert Nardoza said.
Cablevision Systems Corp. says it is buying the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday from Tribune Co. for $650 million
The founder of an organization that honored Dina Lohan as a "Top Mom" says things "spun out of control" when the media focused all its attention on the tabloid magnet
U.S. stock futures moved higher early Monday as investors returned from the long weekend and eyed the possibility of a higher bid for Wall Street firm Bear Stearns.
Get a sneak peek at the pop star posing with Max and Emme on the cover of this week's PEOPLE
Federal energy regulators on Thursday approved a $700 million liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Long Island Sound, a facility opposed by critics who say it would damage the environment and be vulnerable to a terrorist attack
Gas prices rose more than 9 cents over the past two weeks, to a national average of $3.20 per gallon of self-serve regular, a survey said Sunday.
One evening in late January at Magnan, a brasserie in a working-class section of Montreal, a table of English-speaking men in their 50s, hands on beer glasses and eyes on giant TV screens, burst into song as the final horn sounded in a 4-3 Canadiens victory. The comeback against the Devils, fueled by three third-period goals, was worth celebrating -- Montreal had not won in New Jersey in almost six years -- but it was less shocking than hearing these men with thinning hair and expanding waistlines warbling the team's old, if insipid, victory song in a throaty French: Halte là, halte là, halte là, les Canadiens sont là. This translates, loosely, as "Look out, look out, look out, the Canadiens are there."
The price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped back up near $3 a gallon, according to a survey published Sunday.
A middle school student from Brooklyn died Thursday, probably from the staph infection MRSA, according to the New York City Health Department.
Gas prices rose 6.5 cents over the past two weeks to $2.81 per gallon of self-serve regular, the first increase at the pump since early July, a national survey said Sunday.
"Two minutes!" yells our course coordinator.
Tim Kelly, the general manager of Major League Lacrosse's Lizards, slumps down on a long metal bench on the sidelines of Long Island's Mitchell Stadium, takes a deep breath and stares into the sky, lit particularly bright by a full moon on this muggy Satuday evening in July. Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion is blaring over the loudspeakers in the background, but the song's title couldn't be further from the reality for Kelly and the Lizards, who have seen any hopes they had at earning a wildcard playoff bid vanish when the Denver Outlaws capped their dramatic comeback victory with a two-point goal in sudden-death overtime.
Don Maynard. George Sauer. Matt Snell. Emerson Boozer. Randy Rasmussen. Weeb Ewbank. Pete Lammons. Billy Joe...
Police said a teenager wrote in a journal, "I will start a chain of terrorism in the world," and outlined a plot to detonate a bomb and kill students at his high school in Bohemia, New York.
Here were the No. 8-ranked John Jay (Cross River, N.Y.) Indians last Saturday, spearheading a comeback against No. 14 Garden City Trojans and nothing seemed to provide the necessary breakthrough. Still, despite twice facing three-goal deficits, the Indians refused to retreat over the Whitestone Bridge back to Westchester County without a fight.
We don't know what Eddie Lowery or Rodney Dangerfield or Byron Nelson thought about the game in the gathering darkness, but we do know what Tom Hearn thought. He was an insurance man and a duffer, and John Updike would have put him in his novels had he ever known him. Tom Hearn spent a day when his days were numbered assessing how golf fit into the last 66 years of his life, the freckled early ones and the speckled ones at the close.
The price of gasoline has hit a new record high, averaging $3.07 for a gallon of self-serve regular in the United States, a survey reported Sunday.
For the first time in the NHL's 90-year history, neither of last season's Stanley Cup Final participants will be a part of the playoffs. The Oilers flamed out shortly after shipping Ryan Smyth to Long Island and a third-period collapse on April 3 sealed the Hurricanes' fate.
Winter storms stir up a bounty of prize shell specimens on the shore. Coastal Living magazine rounds up 10 of the best beaches to hunt for them.
Gas prices plunged nearly 14 cents over the past two weeks to a national average of $2.18 a gallon of self-serve regular, a survey said Sunday.
Some people go back to school to study the great books. Others would rather learn how to throw a 14-inch knife, or hammer yellow-hot steel into semi-useful shapes or whip up a chocolate ganache tha...
Throw knives! Be a spy! Learn some unusual skills in these classes.
Retail gasoline prices fell nearly 1.5 cents during the past two weeks, to $2.93 a gallon of self-serve regular, a national survey said Sunday.
Each day brings fresh evidence of peaking home prices. But, with the right strategies, sellers can still command top dollar.
Buying foreclosures once appealed mainly to the small group of hard-core real estate investors who were willing to dig into untouchable rehab projects and wrestle with deadbeat tenants.
Gas prices rose more than 3 cents per gallon over the past two weeks, to a national average of $2.33, a survey of U.S. filling stations found Sunday.
Many residents of high-priced housing markets around the country are cashing out and moving to more affordable areas.
Golfing in the Hamptons -- sounds pretty hoity-toity, doesn't it? And well it should.
I don't want to alarm anyone, but gigantic animals are invading the nation. Hundreds of enormous beasts-turned-advertisements are stalking the nation's highways and byways, and they're beaconing travelers to enter gift shops, restaurants and other destinations.
There are plenty of reasons for the average white-collar stiff to be resentful of Billy Joel. There's the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thing. There's the piles of money thing. There was the married-t...
The average price regular gasoline rose half a cent during the past two weeks, to $1.88, a national survey said Sunday.
Recently I sat down with the editors of FORTUNE for a chat, and a question they asked was, "Are we anywhere near the day you can climb into a car on Long Island, program it to take you to your niec...
Gasoline prices have continued their record climb, jumping 10 cents over the last two weeks, a survey reported Sunday.
A sport utility vehicle slammed into a tree and burst into flames, killing three teenage cousins attending a weekend religious retreat.
A second man has been charged in connection with the October 2001 beating death of Long Island multimillionaire Ted Ammon.
Dear Armchair Millionaire: I'm getting married early next year and would like to know exactly what my future spouse and I should be doing to make sure that we combine our finances properly. -- C.A., Long Island
A fast moving snowstorm failed to reach New England as predicted, but squatted over New Jersey and New York, dumping more than a foot of flakes in one area.
There was a shortage of regular guys on the road. At least that's how it seemed to six young Russians driving on the Southern State Parkway. They had left the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn--kn...
America is full of foods that are deeply woven into the fabric of their local regions while remaining virtually unknown in other parts of the country. But what if you don't have the time to travel ...
Who says celebs get off easy? Lizzie Grubman was just locked up on Long Island for her Mercedes mistake, and the SEC handed Martha notice of a suit (criminal charges may follow), Then there's forme...
If you're going to dislocate your shoulder, there's no better place to do it than Schmitt Field in Rochester, Minn. It's a stone's throw from the Mayo Clinic, which is where Brent "Skinny" Peterson...
Dave Catalano, the director of Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y., and the gatekeeper of its acclaimed Black course, should be getting combat pay. It's 5:23 P.M. on a recent Friday, and inste...
The main problem with getting away from it all, it seems, is that the rest of civilization is trying to get away from it all too--generally at the same time and the same place you are. So your supp...
"Sold!" cries a guy in the convertible bonds area of Icap's makeshift trading floor as he slams his fist on the desk. "There goes one of our keyboards," deadpans Don Carey, head of disaster recover...
Want a hobby that enables you to learn a craft, spend time outdoors, and impress your friends? You have a lot of company. The number of wineries in the U.S. has doubled in the past 20 years to more...
Okay, you missed out on the 38-acre ranch in Jackson Hole--the one with the horses, the six bedrooms, and the fish-jammed pond. You know, the one that's now worth $7 million and change. Relax. Ther...
Mild-mannered Healdsburg, Calif., in the heart of Sonoma County, has always been a slightly frumpy wine-country cousin to the flashier towns of Napa Valley. Until last summer, that is, when a stran...
In early August, I was out to dinner with my husband and two other couples at a trendy place on Long Island. We'd had a good time, and an even better meal, and we were busily scraping up the last c...
Our Valentine's Day getaway didn't quite work out as planned. Like thousands of other Americans, my wife and I were victims of the sickout by American Airlines pilots. I've been stranded by strikes...
Newspapers should have been dead by now. They lost nearly 5.5 million subscribers between 1986 and 1996, and pundits declared the end was near. Young people didn't read, they said. The Net would re...
So you're feeling pretty good about your portfolio these days, and you're juiced about the future. You're even thinking of cashing in a few winners and investing in a second home--maybe a quiet wee...
If you aim to rent a summer house this year instead of buying one, but you haven't acted yet, we have two words for you: Good luck! According to real estate agents around the country surveyed by Mo...
Muriel Siebert, the doyenne of discount equities brokers, was driving out onto Long Island one Friday night when her car, a vintage Mercedes 350SL, got a flat tire. She pulled to the side of the ro...
Some people think the term "investigative reporter" is redundant, that all reporters should, by definition, be investigators. But in the real world of journalism, that's not the way it works. Just ...
How come driving a car isn't the way they show it in commercials? Too much of the time you spend behind the wheel finds you jammed among lots of other vehicles just creeping along. Your car, concei...
Stocks of companies based in Cincinnati outperformed those of 23 other metropolitan areas in the third quarter, according to the exclusive MONEY/ Nordby Cities Index. It is composed of a series of ...
One of the tenets of sound investing is to buy what you know. And the new, exclusive MONEY/Nordby Cities Index of leading stocks in 24 major metropolitan areas shows how great the opportunities can...
Talk about fast learners. A dozen residents of Franklin, Massachusetts, knuckle down to ''Principles of Management'' at roughly 60 mph -- during their morning commute into Boston. The so-called Cho...
The houses are identical: four bedrooms, 2,600 square feet and located in neighborhoods where families typically have incomes of about $75,000 -- roughly the median for MONEY subscribers. One is in...
If you feel that your property taxes are gnawing an ever-bigger hole in your wallet, you're not alone. In our latest Americans and Their Money poll of 300 subscribers, 60% said that their real esta...
Mothers bless the day the aseptic juice box was born. The brick-shaped container is small, requires no refrigeration, and comes equipped with a tiny straw -- attributes that make it ideal for park ...
From California to New York's Long Island, this land is once again made for home buyers and sellers. You may not see strong evidence in the next sales statistics -- it takes 45 to 90 days for the d...
At Sonic Industries Inc., an Oklahoma-based chain of 1,043 fast-food drive- ins, hunting for a superior location used to be about as scientific as using a divining rod to find water. ''Some of the ...
DEEP IN THEIR HEARTS, utility men love to build generating plants. Big boilers, broad dams, tall stacks. Power for the nation. And this is the time when utilities would normally be starting a new r...
Is the auto world ready for another idea from Malcolm Bricklin? He's the entrepreneur who brought Subarus to the U.S. (successfully), imported Yugos (less successfully), and tried to start his own ...
As a good-will gesture, Irv Klein and Jonah Kaufman hired several mentally handicapped adults to work in their 13 McDonald's restaurants on Long Island, New York, last year. The experience was so s...
Legislation aimed at protecting workers who use video display terminals (VDTs) may have finally found a home in Suffolk County, on New York's Long Island. If signed into law by the county executive...
The number of bonded wineries in the U.S. has more than doubled, to over 1,400, in the past dozen years, partly because burned-out executives have been trading in the big-city life for pastoral toi...
With the average price of a first house at $81,000, many Americans feel locked out of the American dream. The percent of annual income that first-time home buyers must fork over for mortgage costs ...
The wandering bargeload of Long Island garbage that took an unexpected Caribbean cruise recently was no anomaly. The U.S. is rapidly running out of safe dump sites, and stiff government regulations...
CORPORATIONS that sell to the super- rich are finding it pays to support their local polo team. From a look at the fans that the sport attracts, one can understand why. Polo magazine, the game's mo...
New York State approved a 52% increase in medical malpractice insurance rates, its largest increase in ten years. The hike cemented New York's place as the state with the highest malpractice insura...
Common sense has kept many a traveler away from the doors of seafood restaurants in the American heartland, far from the sea. Granted that frozen / fish can, when thawed, be stuffed with herbs, tum...
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