Legendary restaurateur Sylvia Woods, known internationally as the "Queen of Soul Food," died Thursday, according to a statement issued by her family. She was 86.
The family of a former Marine fatally shot by police inside his White Plains, New York, apartment filed a $21 million federal lawsuit Monday morning.
In a city as big as New York, finding long-lost loved ones is no easy task -- especially after they've died.
It started after I suffered several personal and professional blows between 1999 and 2002.
The actress and Andrew Joblon have been dating for a month, a source tells PEOPLE
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister-in-law, Edythe Scott Bagley, has died of natural causes at her Pennsylvania home, her family said Monday.
Below is a look at some of the best players still available in the MLB Draft after Monday's first round and compensation round. To read Dave Perkin's pick-by-pick analysis of each of the 60 picks from Monday night, click here.
If a serious nuclear accident were to happen in the United States, would we be able to evacuate to safety? That question now appears more than academic and all too realistic as the Japanese try to limit the release of deadly radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
A National Transportation Safety Board investigation has revealed new facts about the Bronx crash that killed 15 people in early March, with the head of the NTSB issuing renewed calls for changes in bus safety and regulation of bus companies.
The municipal bond market is headed for its worst quarter in a decade, as investors fear cash-strapped states and cities across the country are on the brink of default, and local governments slow debt issuance.
As investors fear cash-strapped states and cities across the country are on the brink of default and local governments slow debt issuance, the municipal bond market is heading for its worst quarter in a decade.
At least 14 passengers died early Saturday after the driver of their tour bus lost control of the vehicle and struck a pole on Interstate 95 in the Bronx, New York police said.
In the immortal words of TV game show host Monty Hall, it's time for let's make a deal!
A goodbye kiss led to a trip to the emergency room for the media mogul
Reality television digs deep next spring, when Spike TV follows West Virginia coal miners underground.
Police arrest a New York woman accused of stabbing her two young nieces. News 12 Westchester reports.
Floodwaters covering the Chicago area were receding Sunday, as damages surfaced and communities began the clean-up process.
Heavy rain and flooding in the Chicago area has left 50,000 without power. Affiliate WGN reports.
Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone we might otherwise feel perilously far from.
At least three times in recent weeks, they've been spotted in various parts of Manhattan, from the streets of Harlem to Central Park to Columbia University.
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.
It was a busy night for New York Yankees Manager Joe Girardi -- not only did he lead his team to the World Series championship, but on his way home, he also helped the victim of a car accident get out of harm's way.
NEW YORK -- Recently, Andy Pettitte noticed a change in his drive into the Bronx from his home in Westchester.
The Pentagon on Tuesday identified four U.S. Marines who died in one of two helicopter collisions Monday in Afghanistan.
"I pray that we all get closer," says the singer, whose faith inspired her new songs
A CNN crew heads to Bedford, New York, trying to find the tent of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The town of Bedford, New York, is not happy with a tent set up as part of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's visit to the United States for the United Nations General Assembly, a town attorney said Tuesday.
A tent was erected on a property in Westchester County, New York, in anticipation of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's visit to the United States for the United Nations General Assembly, police told CNN affiliate WABC Tuesday.
The attorney for a man whose wife's wrong-way accident killed eight people on New York's Taconic Parkway in July says he will ask authorities to exhume her body to prove she wasn't drinking at the time of the accident.
The husband of a woman who was legally drunk when she caused a wrong-way crash fights to clear her name.
The body of a woman who authorities say was impaired by marijuana and alcohol when she caused a deadly head-on collision shows no signs of long-term alcohol use, according to an investigator hired by her family.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is struggling to unload his million-dollar manse located in a posh New York City suburb. And like so many other Americans, he'll probably lose money on it when he does.
The driver responsible for a head-on collision that killed eight people -- including herself and four children -- on the Taconic State Parkway north of New York City last week was drunk and impaired by marijuana, authorities said.
A three-vehicle crash north of New York killed eight people -- including four children, state police told CNN.
Despite talking a tough line today, Washington seems determined to bail out Detroit, despite the objections of the public (61% opposed it, according to a CNN poll in February). The public is correct. Money diverted to a dying industry is taken away from areas with better prospects.
In times past, Jerry Borbon would not have thought twice about the backpack-wearing young man he spotted strolling down a street in his Miami, Florida, community.
Judging by the screaming newspaper headlines and the steamy ecstasy of the gossip columns, people from other worlds might presume that it has already come to pass: that a woman who happens to be named Caroline Kennedy was pole-vaulted above the crowd and sent with magic wand and golden slippers to the U.S. Senate from New York, in the hope of saving the Empire State and bringing goodness to all its inhabitants.
No video games. No cell phones or Internet. No TV, swimming pools, souvenir shopping or even a bed. And no one's complaining. In fact, parents and kids say they don't miss any of it.
An ambulance was called to the suburban home of former New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, and someone there was taken to a hospital
Michelle Cottle, 38, of Westchester, New York, always dreamed of an elegant wedding.
Rebecca Dolgin of The Knot gives ideas for cutting wedding costs.
Both St. Benedict's (Newark, N.J.) and Academy of the New Church (Bryn Athyn, Pa.) ended their seasons with wins last week, but the rest of the Top 25 are still battling for section, county and state titles.
Widespread power outages are being reported around southern Florida,
including parts of Miami
Snowstorms whipped through the Northeast on Friday, causing significant travel delays at airports in the New York area and elsewhere.
With Oklahoma-bound scorer Willie Warren leading the way, North Crowley of Forth Worth, Texas enters the rankings at No. 19. North Crowley (30-1) continues to impress and will be the Lone Star team to watch come state tournament time.
When parenting styles clash, awkward situations arise. What to do in these five situations when you find yourself at odds with other parents, in-laws, or even your spouse.
Ralph Lauren was doing reconnaissance, lingering outside one of his stores watching customers. On this crisp fall Saturday afternoon a few years ago, he had driven one of his vintage cars from his estate in Katonah, N.Y., through the leafy back roads of Westchester County to the nearby town of New Canaan, Conn.
A small boutique office building on Park Avenue and 57th Street - Bloomingdale Country - has sold for nearly $1,600 a square foot, a total of $510 million. That represents a huge increase from 2002, when it was last sold for $158 million, or about $492 per square foot.
Ryan Boatright, an eighth-grader from Illinois, already has his college decision out of the way after committing to USC this week.
SI.com: Backspinupdated: Tue May 22 2007 10:16:00
PADRAIG HARRINGTON erased 25 years of national frustration on Sunday but also moved a step closer to becoming the best player never to have won a major. Harrington (below) is the first native son to win the Irish Open since John O'Leary in 1982. Harrington, 35, won by parring the first playoff hole after he and Bradley Dredge tied over 72 holes at five-under 283 at Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort, in Limerick. The No. 11–ranked player in the world, Harrington has now been victorious twice on the PGA Tour and 12 times in Europe, where he also won the money title last year. "I've always said that after the four majors, this is the next event I've wanted to win,"Harrington said. Well, one down, four to go, and the clock's ticking, Paddy.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The PGA Tour's Barclays tournament will be played at the recently completed Liberty National course in 2009.
SI.com: Blue Collaredupdated: Tue Mar 20 2007 12:33:00
Westchester Country Club would seem to be an ideal breeding ground for tour pros. It has two 18-hole courses, a nine-hole par-3 layout, a sprawling practice tee, two huge practice greens and a short-game practice area. There are droves of kids in the junior program, and virtually all of them have well-heeled parents who furnish them with the latest equipment, lessons with the club's seven instructors and funds to compete around the country. A PGA Tour event has been held on the grounds every year since 1967.
A lot of ideas come to me on the train ride into Manhattan every morning from Westchester. It's become a laboratory for me to talk about ideas with people who don't have a vested interest in the me...
SL Green Realty said on Thursday it will buy Reckson Associates Realty Corp. for about $4 billion in cash and stock, in a deal that will combine SL Green's portfolio of Manhattan office buildings with Reckson's office properties in the New York City area.
Fortune: Mall Star Analystupdated: Tue Feb 28 2006 12:43:00
It's a Tuesday morning in early February, and Bob Buchanan, dressed casually but expensively (black Prada shoes from Barneys, corduroy pants from Neiman Marcus, a Saks T-shirt), is exploring The We...
Donald Trump reportedly has scored a multi-million verdict in a case involving dirt hauled from a property he's developing.
Martha's version of "The Apprentice" is a wrap, said a published report Wednesday.
Three doctors from the Westchester suburbs of New York City allegedly provided mob figures with erectile dysfunction drugs in exchange for various favors, the FBI said Thursday.
This was the year that Americans reasserted their traditional values.
Mitchell and Debbie Roschelle met in 1997, married in 1999 and had twin boys in 2000. So what did they do in 2001? They house hunted, of course.
You never know what Friday the 13th will bring. On that day last October, the Nasdaq had one of its biggest gains ever, leaping 8%. And in Milwaukee, two little mutual funds made their own big move...
The image remodelers face a challenge. They're trying to make a curmudgeonly mayor seem cuddly and a stiff Vice President seem like a stitch. The personality makeover might be the hardest move in p...
Who says Congress is out of touch? Dan Burton (R-Indiana) is certainly on the job, protecting young and old alike from the depredations of the Internal Revenue Service. His Caddie Relief Act of 199...
Few big-name designers have the kind of Wall Street friends that Tommy Hilfiger has. Hilfiger's threads may lack couture allure, but they're a hit with everyone from the inner-city skate rat to the...
December's surprising Idea of the Month has generated considerable mail: It showed readers how to determine whether they might actually be saving too much money. "Before people die, they rarely say...
-- Like corn in late spring, the value of the nation's farmland has been inching higher. After declining for five straight years in the mid-1980s, prices for U.S. farms have climbed six years in a ...
Guess who's back in business? The arbs! Dormant for the past three years, risk arbitragers, as they are formally known, are waking up and smelling merger activity as it heats up. These boys (and a ...
The very rich (see Wealth) have always fascinated our readers. In the first issue, in 1930, FORTUNE's Dwight Macdonald, the celebrated cultural critic, wrote about 25 of their private island retrea...
Can't find the ravioli? Push a couple of buttons and your shopping cart will point the way. In what just could be the most radical breakthrough in supermarket shopping since automated checkout, Inf...
Only in America (cont'd) Dr. Nathaniel M. Floyd . . . has studied 230 juvenile bullies and their victims during his three years as a psychologist with the Board of Cooperative Educational Services ...
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