Hours after finding victims of a brutal murder-suicide in a suburban Maryland hotel room, a Baltimore County police detective opened William Parente's cell phone and began dialing numbers.

24 Apr 09 09:07
The recession is evicting hundreds of animals
from the Bronx Zoo.

24 Apr 09 05:43
Scientists think they have identified the chemical that killed 21 polo horses
Five days after 21 polo horses mysteriously died in Wellington, university scientists Thursday singled out a chemical they think killed the ponies.

24 Apr 09 10:58
As Long Island has evolved from farmlands and horse carriages to housing developments and congested highways, one piece of infrastructure has stood the test of time - a straight line of train tracks cutting through the middle of the Island.

23 Apr 09 21:25

24 Apr 09 06:33
The Garden City mother and her two daughters died violently, one by one.

22 Apr 09 21:53
A Harvard-educated physician who oversees a half-billion dollar research fund at a top-ranked Midwestern university is expected to be named the next president of Stony Brook University, according to sources familiar with the search.

22 Apr 09 23:01
Fred Wesemann sees nothing strange about Brookhaven Town's decision to label his building as historic.

23 Apr 09 20:23
BALTIMORE - They call themselves "The Mates." Danni and Lauren, Jules and Heather, Big Steph and Little Steph, or just "the little one."

23 Apr 09 22:13
A funeral Mass will be said Saturday for Kelly Amelia Breslin, the daughter of former Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, who died Tuesday night after collapsing four days earlier in a Manhattan restaurant.

22 Apr 09 21:33