The commuter line's founders gambled that the line could operate without an automatic braking system, interviews with safety experts and documents show.

Hundreds of thousands of New York City revelers have celebrated the end of a historic year that saw the election of the first black U.S. president and a catastrophic economic meltdown and have ushered in 2009 from Times Square. Former President...

The Portland area finally gets a break today. That means no rain, no winds and maybe even a day with some sunshine. The National Weather Service has cancelled all of its flood watches as the storm that pounded Washington moves...

Two of the enduring names in Charlotte residential real estate are combining to create a 150-agent firm with SouthPark and Eastover offices.Cottingham-Chalk & Associates, started in 1983, and Bissell-Hayes Realtors, founded in 1971, will operate as Cottingham-Chalk/Bissell-Hayes with three principals: John Chalk, Dan Cottingham and Baxter Hayes.The housing downturn has created trying times for real estate agencies, and “this is driven by the current situation,” Cottingham said.

Panasonic said it will slash capital expenditure in its television business and pull out of unspecified unprofitable businesses, and warned it may fall short of some financial targets.

A landmark torture case that grew out of a U.S. investigation into arms trafficking in Liberia will climax in a Miami federal court Friday with a potential life sentence for the son of that nation's former president.

The blaze spread quickly because the building lacked firewalls, destroying at least a dozen units at the Enchanted Fountains complex.