Those who were unemployed during recession are more likely to see selves as overqualified for jobs.

It seems like seamless and sustainable urban transportation: You ride your bike to the bus or light-rail stop, attach it to the bus bumper rack or the wall of the train car, and relax for the rest of the ride to work or home.

Cargill Meat Solutions, a division of Minnetonka-based Cargill, recalled 8,500 pounds of hamburger after investigators determined that it was the likely source of a bacterial strain which had sickened three people in Maine and New York.

The teachers' union veteran looks back as he moves forward

AE's uncertain future means wobbly program budgets

The arguments over WTP4 have petrified

Wall Street's Ethical Dilemma; and Big Banks' Inside Job

Multiple firms claim money owed for work on Backyard, Austin Music Hall

Recommendations on improving witness identification and evidence testing head to the Lege

Wyo. man gives more than $1.5 million to help defend Arizona's controversial immigration law in court, bringing Gov. Jan Brewer's total defense fund to $3.6 million

The courts upheld ladies' night and New Yorkers say the feeling's right.
Charging female patrons less is a good idea, say bartenders and customers.
"The [appellate court] judges made a good decision," said Martha Giretti, 30, a bartender at Local 138 on the Lower East Side. "Ladies' night gets...

An escalating turf war between bloodthirsty street gangs nearly claimed the life of a 10-year-old Brooklyn boy who was hit by a bullet that flew through his window while he was innocently watching cartoons on television. Khali Robinson was in stable condition at Brookdale Hospital yesterday following his terrifying ordeal...

AP - Swedish investment bank Carnegie says it is buying competitor HQ Bank, which had its banking license revoked by the financial watchdog last week.

A Republican political appointee with the Nassau County Board of Elections ended up disenfranchising her own party when she failed to include the GOP in the instructions sent out to 900,000 voters on the new electronic voting machines, red-faced officials admitted yesterday.
The elephant-sized goof appeared in information sent...

A deranged pervert shot and wounded four Shomrim members who tried to nab him Thursday night after he exposed himself in front of children on a Brooklyn street, police and witnesses said.

News reports say a suicide car bomb blast has torn through police offices in Tajikistan's second-largest city, injuring 25 people.

BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone.

Time.com - Amid the catastrophes, the country's religious minorities are under assault -- and one group has allegedly been denied official assistance

News reports say a suicide car bomb blast has torn through police offices in Tajikistan's second-largest city, injuring 25 people.

A weakened Hurricane Earl brushed North Carolina's Outer Banks overnight as residents along the Eastern Seaboard braced for a stormy Friday.

Fear sparks stockpiling of food in Russia as prices soar

Rhett Bomar may have nailed down the job as the New York Giants' backup quarterback, throwing a 60-yard scoring pass with 1:49 to play as the Giants rallied for a 20-17 victory over New England.

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday a community center and mosque planned near Ground Zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The latest poll shows Rick Lazio maintaining a lead over Carl Paladino in the race for the Republican nomination for governor in New York just as Paladino begins his full-out sprint. [...]

David Wright homered, Johan Santana won for the first time in four starts and the New York Mets snapped the Atlanta Braves' five-game winning streak with a 4-2 victory Thursday night.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is being sued over a new state policy that denies Medicaid benefits to certain groups of legal immigrants. Lawyers for Seton Hall University Law School and the firm Gibbons [...]

A Long Island accountant was nabbed with more than $10,000 worth of US Open tickets after he was spotted illegally hawking a pair of the ducats, prosecutors said yesterday.
Police said they caught Marvin Schaffer, 61, of Glen Head serving up tickets outside Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday.
Cops...

A website supporting Iran's reform movement says assailants have attacked the home of an opposition leader and wounded one of his bodyguards.

X Factor's Olly Murs attempts leap from talent show runner-up to pop star

A website supporting Iran's reform movement says assailants have attacked the home of an opposition leader and wounded one of his bodyguards.

UK Independence Party members gather for their autumn conference in Torquay with the search for a new leader top of its agenda.

Terrelle Pryor picked up right where he left off, throwing for 247 yards and three touchdowns in No. 2 Ohio State's 45-7 dismantling of Marshall on college football's opening night.

A shockingly malnourished 4-year-old Brooklyn girl weighed just 15 pounds when she was found dead yesterday by her mother in their filthy home -- and there was evidence she'd previously been tied to a bed with twine, cops said.
Marchella Pierce, who had battled health problems since her premature...