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...

Confronted by doubts on Capitol Hill over $700B financial rescue, nominee for Treasury Secretary broadens its scope beyond Wall St., sources say.

Workers pull 100 people from shattered residential block that the Israeli military had kept off-limits.

Postal service plans to consolidate routes, changing delivery times for many households.

VERNON, Vt. — Vermont's lone nuclear power plant is cutting the amount of power it generates by 60 percent after finding a leak of mildly radioactive water.

Floods, mudslides and avalanches in the Pacific Northwest kept tens of thousands of people from their homes and stranded hundreds of trucks along the major highways that link Seattle's busy ports with markets around the country.

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The first substantial snow accumulation of the New Year could come this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. After a chance of freezing rain and sleet early Saturday, snow is expected to begin as the day progresses, and there could be as much as three inches of snow on Saturday, according to the Weather Service's forecast.

STOW — Perhaps the first hint of trouble was when the man entered the National City Bank on Graham Road Thursday wearing a black ski mask over his face and quietly took his place in line. He refused to remove...