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Today is Monday, Oct. 13, the 287th day of 2008. There are 79 days left in the year. This is the Columbus Day holiday in the United States, as well as Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

On this date:

In A.D. 54, Roman emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina.

In 1775, the United States Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.

The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were ...

Pushy, ambitious, bold, Michael Bloomberg's bid to remain mayor for another four years marks him out as the archetypal New Yorker.

Joan Marie Kaye and 45,000 runners gearing up for the Chicago Marathon know that muscle-aching, mind-numbing, hurts-so-bad-you-want-to-die kind of pain almost surely awaits them.

A family of five, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze Saturday that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door, fire officials said.

A 10-year-old boy who survived was in critical condition after the fire in a public housing complex in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The boy was found with two other family members in a back bedroom, while the rest of the family sought refuge in a full bathtub and underneath a bathroom sink, officials said.

NEW YORK A woman who moved to Louisiana to help Hurricane Katrina survivors, a marathon runner who gets homeless people on their feet and several community organizers will be honored by CNN in its second ...

NICOSIA: Rival Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders held private talks on Friday in a bid to speed up slow-moving negotiations on reunifying the divided Mediterranean island.

The plunging stock market, big bank failures, falling home values and other scary economic news could signal trouble for travel.

Latin American markets seesawed lower in volatile trading Friday as skittish investors pulled cash from the region on fears that fallout from the global financial crisis could not be contained.

Police say a priest who serves as a youth minister at a Roman Catholic university e-mailed pornographic videos to a Colorado detective posing as a 14-year-old.

Authorities say the Rev. Charles Plock, a chaplain at St. John's University in Queens, shot the masturbation movies in the bathroom of his on-campus apartment. The priest's face is clearly visible, according to investigators.

As part of an online sting operation, police in Colorado's Adams County traced the e-mail to St. John's. In New York, the NYPD investigators armed with a search warrant seized Plock's computers along with the homemade footage.

A decade after a gay college student was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead, many in this small college town are still struggling with the aftermath of a crime that triggered nationwide sympathy and brought a re-examination of attitudes toward gays.

Ten years ago, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard died after being beaten and left in the cold by two men he met in a bar. Residents were shaken by the brutality of the crime, and the media descended on the town trying to explain why it happened.

Karita Mattila as Salome in the Metropolitan Opera's production of "Salome." The Metropolitan Opera's third season of The Met: Live in HD continues with a special afternoon transmission of Richard Strauss's ...

Gov. David Paterson says the winter heating season may be easier than expected for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.

New Yorkers weren't showing the same optimism about their economic condition as the nation as a whole in September, according to the consumer confidence survey out todayA from the Siena Research Institute.

Climate change and bio-energy are the focus of this year's World Food Day activities, expected to involve over 150 countries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday.

ALBANY - A member of the Dutch royal family will help New York state mark next year's 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage on the river that would bear his name.

Nine Hollywood hopefuls want you to remember their names. MGM has compiled most of the lead cast for its accelerating remake of the 1980 musical "Fame." Kristy Flores, Paul Iacono, Paul McGill, Naturi Naughton, ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a draft scoping document outlining the issues to be covered in its analysis of the environmental impacts of national gas drilling in the region's ...

NEW YORK - Here's an art exhibit that could really get your pulse racing. Madison Square Park, located near the famous Flatiron building in Manhattan, is installing an interactive light installation by Mexican ...

Oct 9, 2008 12:12 pm US/Central NEW YORK Tin Pan Alley, once the home of Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin and dozens of other great American songwriters, is up for sale.