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NEW YORK – It was one of the city's most memorable scenes from Superstorm Sandy: Nurses at a major medical center whisking newborns down several flights of stairs to safety after the hospital lost power amid punishing winds, rain and rising floodwaters.As the storm whipped the city late last Oct.

The Massachusetts high school teacher allegedly murdered by one of her charges inside a school bathroom was remembered at her viewing Sunday as an inspiring woman.Mourners wiped away tears as they gathered at Andover's St.

Hundreds of pets lost or abandoned after Superstorm Sandy made landfall a year ago are living as strays or sitting in narrow kennels and cages at shelters across the country, waiting to be found or adopted, pet rescue volunteers say.

The people and communities that suffered when Superstorm Sandy collided with the eastern seaboard almost a year ago will be remembered in public events marking the anniversary of the storm’s landfall.The post-tropical cyclone, which made landfall in New Jersey with hurricane-force winds on Oct.

The famously anonymous British street artist known as  Banksy criticized the design of One World Trade Center in New York City on his website Sunday, calling the 1,776-foot-tall structure a "shyscraper" and "the biggest eyesore.

Hundreds of people rallied in Denver on Sunday to protest the name of the Washington Redskins and to send a message to team owner Dan Snyder that the nickname is derogatory to Native Americans.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has scored an endorsement from Shaquille O'Neal, the basketball legend expressed in a video released Sunday.

A Colorado prosecutor whose predecessor declined to prosecute JonBenet Ramsey’s parents for child abuse after a grand jury indicted them called the decision difficult and said he wasn’t sure what he would have done.

NEW YORK — A mother and her four young children were stabbed to death in a bloody rampage in Brooklyn late on Saturday night, police said.William Zhuo, 1, Amy Zhuo, 7, and Linda Zhuo, 9, were pronounced dead at the scene when officials arrived just before 11 p.m.

Singer Chris Brown and his bodyguard were arrested early Sunday morning outside an upscale Hotel in Washington D.C, according to police.