A five-year-old ban on the use of trans fats in New York City restaurants has sharply reduced the consumption of these unhealthy fats among fast-food customers, a study by city health officials has found.
U.S. stocks closed mixed Monday, with blue-chips gaining and tech shares falling, as investors weighed an upbeat report on retail sales, corporate earnings and renewed worries about Europe.
The New York attorney general sued some of the nation's biggest banks on Friday, accusing them of unlawful and deceptive practices for relying on a private electronic registry that tracks mortgages.
The new year has greeted Americans with the highest January gas prices ever, and some analysts say prices could get close to $5 a gallon in some areas during the warm-weather driving season. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the United States on Monday was $3.39, according to motorist group AAA. That's nearly 30 cents higher than a year ago.
Video released Monday shows a person throwing a Molotov cocktail toward a residence in New York City that also serves as a Hindu temple in one of three such attacks reported by police in the city.
In court documents filed Tuesday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman challenged the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
A hoax e-mail circulating nationally appears to carry an attached traffic ticket by New York State troopers, but it is believed to really carry an unknown computer virus, according to state police.
He and David Burtka proposed five years ago, and are celebrating marriage equality in NY
I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
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The baby cobra missing for seven days has been found, and is doing fine, according to Bronx Zoo officials.
An escaped Egyptian cobra has slithered its way out of a New York City zoo and onto the internet, where the reptile is winning tens of thousands of fans.
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How big is that escaped cobra? CNN's Jeanne Moos reports size matters when it comes to venomous bites.
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Thousands of New Yorkers gathered at City Hall in solidarity with demonstrators in Wisconsin.
I'm standing in a stream in upstate New York shoveling dirt into a bucket. Danny Miller, a 58-year-old retired industrial engineer, shows me how to scatter the dirt into a sluice propped against rocks in shallow water. He dumps the residue from the sluice into a green plastic pan and shakes it, looking for "color." "I almost thought I saw a little piece of gold," says Danny, who heads the New York chapter of the Gold Prospector's Association of America. "Boy, I thought I saw a speck there for a second."
Scientific research has finally caught up with the lifework of my family. For three generations, we have been exploring, questioning, experimenting, passing along our findings from parent to child. We are not neuroscientists or psychologists, like those who have come after us. We are simply...nappers. A nap, where I come from, is sacred.
Arguably the most far-reaching impact of sabermetrics is in the use of park factors to put player performance in context. Throughout baseball history, players, fans and executives knew that certain parks changed the game and the statistics, from the Polo Grounds' horseshoe outfield to Yankee Stadium's short porch to the vast expanses of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. It was statheads who started hanging numbers on those elements, though, enabling us to evaluate players more accurately.
A federal judge in New York blocked a measure Friday that would have forced hundreds of thousands of state government employees to take several days off without pay.
Although suffering a broken heel, she's expected to recover in time for her summer wedding
One wily coyote traveled a bit too far from home, and its resulting adventure through Harlem had alarmed residents doing a double take and scampering to get out of its way Wednesday morning.
President Obama's Cash for Caulkers proposal has almost every homeowner wondering how they'll be able to cash in.
The tradition that is Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has spun off its own tradition -- on Thanksgiving eve, New Yorkers and tourists alike gather on the Upper West Side of New York City to watch their favorite characters come to life in the forms of giant balloons.
A New York judge denied a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order barring the state from mandating flu vaccines for health care workers but left open that possibility pending another hearing on the matter next week.
Here's why the caps on Wall Street compensation announced by President Obama and Treasury secretary Tim Geithner don't amount to much.
Bonds rose Monday after a government report showed lower manufacturing activity in New York State.
A measure of manufacturing in New York State weakened in June for the fourth time in five months, suggesting a slowdown, according to a report Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
One of the great things about shopping on sites like Amazon has been not having to pay a dime in taxes (or shipping, if you've spent enough). Since the dawn of Web commerce, the rule was that as long as a retailer didn't have a physical presence in the shopper's state, the company didn't collect a sales tax.
On Monday, federal prosecutors unsealed an affidavit that details a rendezvous in a Washington hotel room last month between a prostitute and "Client 9," who a CNN source says is New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. That afternoon Spitzer addressed the press and apologized for letting voters and his family down.
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I-Reporter William Bernstein Jr. of Virginia Beach, Virginia, analyzes accusations against New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
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CNN's Owen Thomas speaks with David Buik of BGC Partners about Citigroup's CEO leaving amid market volatility.
Last year, the "it" purchases for Wall Streeters drowning in bonus loot included such luxuries as an exotic European sportscar or a tony pre-war apartment on Park Avenue.
Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting.
The prospect is anything but appealing: You - and possibly your offspring - will have to borrow gigantic sums to pay those college bills soon coming due.
1. Calc Belly jigglin', unshaven, a gameface that doubles as a smirk, you gotta love Mark Calcavecchia. His hard-fought win at something called the PODS Championship was another chance to appreciate one of the most underrated players of his generation.
Pity Jonny Flynn.
LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME for your business? Consider New York State, where CEOs of small companies enjoy the highest pay in the country. A new study of 40 states shows that entrepreneurs in Delaware ...
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session, according to a 19th-Century New York State judge. And similar reasoning applies to the stock market: Political gridlock should be better for the economy than an overly energetic government.
WHEN WE LAST SPOKE TO THE INSTITUTE FOR justice, the nonprofit libertarian law firm had just represented the losing side before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Kelo v. New London eminent domain case ...
New technology may be on the verge of providing us with the ability to store and file details of our lives far beyond our natural capacity to remember, creating the possibility of personal "Black Box"-style recorders capable of chronicling entire lives.
When people say they live in a "dry town," they don't mean Tucson.
Wall Street bonuses set a new record of $21.5 billion in 2005, surpassing the previous record of $19.5 billion set in 2000 during the peak of the last bull market, according to a report released Wednesday by New York State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi.
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:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - New York city's transit strike, which went into effect Tuesday, couldn't have come at a worse time for the city's retail industry, as shoppers and merchants make the final sales push in the last five days to Christmas.
Negotiations to avert the first phase of a transit strike in New York and hammer out a contract for 33,000 transport workers resumed on Saturday, according to a spokesman for the Transport Workers Union.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has called a meeting with certain Wall Street firms to discuss the credit derivatives markets, The New York Times reported.
Once you've identified the causes that matter most to you, find the specific charities that best fit your giving goals.
Ever since September 2003 -- when New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer exposed chronic corruption in the mutual fund business -- legislators, regulators and the media have been spewing out plans to fix the way that funds are run.
I'm afraid my wife and I may be saving too much money. We're both 39 years old and, between retirement, accounts for my daughter's education and future financial security and various brokerage accounts, we save about 21 percent of our gross pay.
Imagine: A legend in the mutual fund world is labeled a communist! A steely-eyed regulator says fund firms are fleecing investors! An industry executive fights back, refusing to bow down!
Even in a culture mecca like New York City, some capable artists and designers feel the need sometimes to flee the pressures of the market and take to the streets to paint the pulse of the city and the scene.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit in Albany, New York, seeking marriage equality for 13 same-sex couples in an attempt to put an end to a gay and lesbian "stigma of inferiority."
Former Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski first landed in court over his alleged failure to pay New York State taxes on artwork that was falsely claimed to have been shipped out of state. You may think th...
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?
All of a sudden, it seems, fund is a four-letter word that begins with F-U.
--PUTNAM In November the Boston fund company, which is one of the largest managers of 401(k) assets in the U.S., settled market-timing charges with the SEC. Putnam agreed to adopt a rule that its e...
This summer, investors in New York State's 529 college savings plan were startled to learn that dramatic changes are on the way. Come November the $1.8 billion plan expects to replace longtime mone...
Who's on your side? Some days it seems no one is. Wall Street scandals can make U.S. markets look like one big pump-and-dump scheme. CEO pay keeps growing and growing and growing. Boards of directo...
Here are the results for 499 bonds that are listed on the Nasdaq, have assets of at least $328 million, are available to individuals for a minimum investment of $25,000 or less and have been in ope...
Iroquois legend credits the geography of New York's Finger Lakes to the Great Spirit, who's said to have left handprints while blessing the land. Of course, we now know that the 11 long, slender lakes, arranged nearly parallel to each other, are the etchings of ice age glaciers--but that doesn't diminish the area's ability to inspire awe.
POCKET CHANGE. The New York State controller says Wall Street bonuses will be down 30% in 2001. But don't weep for the i-bankers: The total pool will still be $10 billion; the average bonus, $60,00...
Look, no handhelds! I think New York State's recent ban on the use of handheld phones by drivers is a good thing. Contrary to some of the law's critics, I believe that using a phone is more distrac...
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With long-distance phone rates as low as 5[cents] a minute--leaving them little more room to drop--the next move in the residential phone wars is likely to be drawn from the cellular playbook: bund...
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Soon it will be easier to check out a broker. By next month you'll be able to log on to the NASD Regulation Website (nasdr.com), enter your broker's name and employer, and immediately get his work ...
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It's no secret that Native Americans have lost market share in North America. The fowls of the air, the fish of the sea (and pretty much everything else in between) once was theirs. Now? Less. For ...
Our top 10 colleges share this critically important characteristic: Compared with schools of similar quality, they cost the least. The winners range in price from tuition and fees of $18,216 at No....
% gain (or loss) to July 1, 1996 % Six Three Telephone Fund name yield months years* (800)
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Although mortgage rates are climbing, one cost of home ownership is scheduled to drop this spring--on April 24, to be exact. That's the effective date for new rules standardizing how lenders must c...
LIKE tuberculosis and measles, child labor is making a comeback in the U.S. From New York to California, employers are breaking the law by hiring children of 7 to 17 who put in long, hard hours and...
-- MICHAEL EISNER, 50, CEO of Walt Disney, on visitors to the Euro Disney theme park outside Paris: ''We've already had a million Germans and a million British guests, and to have those numbers in ...
WHILE BANKS, S&Ls, insurance companies, and nearly everyone else in the financial services industry has a case of the shorts, America's public employee pension funds have an embarrassment of riches...
As residents of New York State, America's No. 1 tax hell, Bill and Bonnie Selley, both 49, of Clifton Park knew the value of tax shelters. So when they cleared $100,000 from the sale of three renta...
Your servant has a friend, a lifelong New Yorker, who had a revelatory experience a while back. A high-paid magazine editor and denizen of a luxury apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he suff...
Herewith, our fifth not quite annual list of the year's ten most depressing happenings unless you are a lefty. Contributing to this highly subjective and impressionistic feature's being not quite a...
WITH THREE children nearing college age, this family will soon hear the wolf at the door, howling for tuition. Fossel suggests a portfolio with equal weight in stocks and bonds to wring out income ...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up, still gamely trying to figure out the point of the endangered-species laws, plunges boldly into Cicero Swamp in upstate New York for a closeup look at midsummer madn...
-- Could you afford your house if you were buying it today? Asked that question as part of our Consumer Comfort Index polling (see page 25), a full 51% of Americans said no. -- The New York State C...
Ah, munificent municipals. For months municipal bonds have been offering sumptuous yields in comparison with their taxable counterparts. Now, with stocks stalled and junk bonds in the dumps, munis ...
No question about it. Term life insurance gives your dependents the most protection at the lowest initial cost. Most parents with young children cannot afford to insure themselves adequately any ot...
What would you do if you won the New York State lottery? Answers are familiar to millions who travel New York City's subways, where a billboard campaign features real lotto players answering that v...
Around our own house these days, the biggest question about the Scholastic Aptitude Test is how well your servant scored. (As breathlessly described in this space two fortnights ago, he went and to...
This being the 12th anniversary of Keeping Up, it seemed like a good idea to review certain major findings presented in this space since December 1976: -- Michigan has a law barring discrimination ...
-- A picture caption in ''It Was Faxination, I Know . . . '' (July) gave the wrong model number for the Brother fax machine. The correct number: FAX-100. -- One Woman's Finances in August incorrect...
New York State's highest court ruled yesterday that New York City can force the developer of a 31-story apartment building . . . to tear down the top 12 floors . . . The developer was granted a bui...
Not since Central States Electric of Richmond, Virginia, went into receivership in 1942 has a major U.S. utility gone bankrupt. Several power companies are vying for the honor of being next. The Gr...
Most small investors looking for tax-exempt yields buy shares in municipal bond mutual funds or unit investment trusts. Now there is an alternative that can be more attractive: closed-end bond fund...
One of the hottest growth industries in the U.S. is also one of the oldest. Farmers' markets are proliferating like zucchini. Californians can buy fresh fruit and vegetables directly from growers a...
A question suddenly leaped to mind the other day, along with a proposed answer, when we heard of New York State's latest proposals for rental housing in New York City. Question: In what sense does ...
Jim and Betty Schreiner first bought skis for their sons Jim Jr. and Curtis when the boys were six and four years old respectively. Three years later, their dad began teaching them to pop tin cans ...
Micron Technology, a Boise, Idaho, microchip manufacturer, complained to the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Commerce Department that seven Japanese semiconductor makers compete unfairl...
''We say here that everybody wants to be a chicken's head, not a bull's toenail.'' -CHIEN-SHIEN WANG, 46, Taiwan's vice minister for economic affairs, on why there are so many small businesses in h...
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...
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