Two people who'd moved into a northern New Jersey town house a day earlier have died in a fire that started in their kitchen and spread upstairs. Police say 52-year-old Eliot C. Nisenbaum and 55-year-old Ronald Sandberg were found Saturday night ...

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who robbed and shot a New Jersey minibus driver, then stole the bus and ran him over, leaving him paralyzed. Family members describe the 48-year-old bus driver as a hardworking, churchgoing Ecuadorean immigrant ...

General Electric Co. on Monday proposed halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup. GE made the proposal as the company and the federal Environmental Protection Agency were set to release ...

For the third time in seven months, the judgment of those who operate the nation's air traffic control system has been called into question and concerns raised that complacency may be causing controllers and their supervisors to bend rules. While major air crashes have declined sharply over ...