Question remains: What will rise at ground zero?
NEW YORK – The five skyscrapers were all supposed to rise by early next decade to replace the ravaged World Trade Center, with the city's tallest towers set in a spiral evoking the Statue of Liberty's torch. They woul...See Story

 

NY man's next blood donation will be gallon No. 40
WOODBURY, N.Y. – A New York man is donating his 320th pint of blood this week, making him one of two people in the U.S. who has given 40 gallons. Seventy-five-year-old Al Fischer of Massapequa (mass-ah-PEE'-kwah) plan...See Story

 

Report: 10 states face looming budget disasters
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In Arizona, the budget has grown so gloomy that lawmakers are considering mortgaging Capitol buildings. In Michigan, state officials dealing with the nation's highest unemployment rate are slashing s...See Story

 

Only living American WWI vet turns 109 in W.Va.
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. – America's last surviving World War I veteran is now 109. Frank Woodruff Buckles celebrated his birthday Monday with family and friends at his home in West Virginia. Buckles, who was born in Ha...See Story

 

College prices up again even as economy falters
As the economy walloped their finances, students and families saw little relief this fall from rising college costs, which jumped 6.4 percent at state universities, according to new figures out Wednesday. Next year is...See Story

 

Record corn prices mean more expensive meat, dairy
NEW YORK - Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store. In the latest bout of food inflation, beef, pork, poult...See Story

 

1st black La. Supreme Court justice dies at 84
NEW ORLEANS - Revius Ortique Jr., a former civil rights attorney who became the first black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84. Ortique died in Baton Rouge from complications with a stroke...See Story

 

Va. judge imposes death in guard, deputy slaying
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - A jail escapee who set off a manhunt near Virginia Tech's campus by killing a hospital guard and later, a sheriff's deputy, was sentenced to death Monday despite his attorney's pleas for leniency. ...See Story

 

Mass. mayor says no proof girls had pregnancy pact
GLOUCESTER, Mass. - The city's mayor said Monday there is no evidence a group of young girls made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, seeking to dispel an explosive theory put forth by the high school...See Story