If you commute using one of the 10 most clogged highways in the United States, you could ride a bicycle to work faster than you could drive, according to a new study that evaluates the countless hours drivers waste in gridlock on roadways each year.
After seven years of wrangling in a case that altered workplace discrimination law, 20 firefighters will receive a $2 million payout from the city of New Haven, Connecticut.
Just as the housing market began to collapse near the end of 2007, a real estate agent in Bridgeport, Conn. asked Regions Bank if it would accept a $102,375 bid on a home that was underwater on its mortgage. Under the impression that this was the best offer on the home, Regions agreed to the short sale and released the mortgage it owned on the home.
Metro economies struggling the most to recover from the Great Recession typically lost government jobs, a new Brookings Institution report found.
A Connecticut man was indicted Tuesday on charges related to the building and selling of cylinders packed with explosives, according to a U.S. attorney statement.
Three academically competitive high schools from different areas of the country are competing for a lofty prize: an appearance and a speech from President Barack Obama at their spring commencement ceremony.
A woman suspected of snatching an infant from a New York hospital in 1987 has been indicted on federal kidnapping charges, according to court papers released Thursday.
A deputy U.S. marshal who had been with the service for just over a year was fatally shot while serving an arrest warrant Wednesday morning in West Virginia, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service.
Marine Corps snipers train for the perfect shot on the cliffs of the Sierra Nevada. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
The snipers, dug deep into their hidden positions in the snow, peer down at the valley below, searching for movement in the makeshift buildings set up.
"[Ann] Pettway is sorry and she knows that she has caused a lot of pain," states her complaint
Ann Pettway turns herself into the FBI after her 'daughter' tracks down real parents
A woman suspected of snatching an infant from a New York hospital in 1987 was in custody Sunday after surrendering to authorities in Connecticut and will face federal kidnapping charges, authorities said.
Carlina White, snatched from Harlem Hospital in 1987, manages to crack her own cold case
Firefighters in northeastern California braced for "extreme behavior" Sunday from a wildfire that burned one residence and at least two outbuildings.
Two firefighters in Bridgeport, Connecticut, were killed Saturday while fighting a house fire, the mayor's office said.
An EF1-scale tornado briefly touched down Thursday in Bridgeport, Connecticut, knocking out windows and ripping signs and awnings off buildings, the National Weather Service confirmed Friday.
Severe weather took only about five minutes to knock out windows and rip signs and awnings off buildings in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut, Thursday afternoon, eyewitness Beth Bowman reported.
North Central West Virginia Airport boasts quick check-ins, free, accessible parking and a convenient baggage claim.
The market keeps chugging along. But with speculative stocks like AIG and Vonage leading the way, you have to wonder if the rally won't soon go off the rails like Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train. Ay-Ay-Ay!
The boy writhes uncontrollably on the floor, but the church members remain calm, if increasingly loud. They're trying to drive a "demon" out of him.
Members of a small church are shown trying to rid a teenager's 'homosexual demons'. We talk to the pastor.
Two police officers allegedly planned home invasion to gather info for tabloids
Happy three-month birthday, stock market rally!
A streetlight is the perfect example of public works: Everyone uses it, and no one expects to pay for it.
The singer says getting engaged to drummer Luke Bullen was "very liberating"
Tommy John won two hundred and eighty-eight games in the majors, but, of course, he remains far better known for the operation that now generically bears his name: Tommy John Surgery. In 1974, a tendon was replaced in his damaged left arm, and miraculously, he returned to pitch another thirteen years. So no one, perhaps, knows the capriciousness of athletic health better than he.
A tornado rips through fields in Dawson County, Texas.
Dressed in a conservative blue suit and a starched white shirt, Michael Skakel could have been going to a business meeting rather than a courthouse. And from his placid demeanor, one might have thought the Kennedy cousin was relaxing at the family compound on Cape Cod rather than being arraigned for the brutal 1975 murder of Martha Moxley.
CNN's Rusty Dornin goes to a Tennessee town that has been dry since August.
The drought in the Southeastern United States means more than just brown lawns to the folks in Orme, Tennessee. Water flows from their taps for just three hours each evening.
Season four Dancing with the Stars champ Apolo Ohno will join the live summer tour generated by the hit ABC show, it was announced Tuesday.
True, America is littered with "for sale" signs these days. And many cities haven't bottomed out yet, and may not for some time. But all the fear and loathing about a housing slump obscures the fac...
The real estate slump could get worse before it gets better. But these 10 markets offer great opportunities for those who have the patience to buy and hold.
The real estate slump could get worse before it gets better. Business 2.0 Magazine, in its November 2006 issue, identifies 10 markets that offer great opportunities for those who have the patience to buy and hold.
QUESTION: Why do you advise people planning for retirement to figure on living to 90 or beyond? I hope to retire at 57, but I'm not going to plan on living beyond 85. That just seems iffy at best. -- Paul, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Money Magazine: No. 9, Fairfield, Conn.updated: Thu Jul 13 2006 10:55:00
When Millie and Scott Pollack decided to leave New York City four years ago, good schools, city amenities and reasonably priced homes topped their wish list. That last item is tough to find near the Big Apple. But as the Pollacks traced the train line east into Connecticut, they found what they were looking for in Fairfield, a 75-minute commute from Manhattan for Scott, 36. "It was the most affordable town and very family-oriented," says Millie, 34, now a mother of two. Though home prices have since shot up, Fairfield remains adraw for young families: Homes start at $350,000, and property taxes are low for the New York metro area.
People's Bank said it is notifying about 90,000 customers affected by a recently lost tape that contained personal information.
When CNN.com asked readers how the Internet has changed their lives, the e-mail inbox filled with stories from people who have used technology to keep in touch or find new ways to do business.
FSB: Big Pucksupdated: Sun May 01 2005 00:01:00
If anybody wins from the National Hockey League lockout, it is the NHL's little brother, the American Hockey League. After two down years, at the end of February AHL attendance was up 9%, to about ...
CNNMoney: Tycoon in the makingupdated: Fri Apr 15 2005 11:40:00
Dave Goldoff once shunned the real estate business, despite the success his father and uncle had with a few buildings they bought together in lower Manhattan.
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - While some homeowners have been cashing in on rising property values, many have been feeling the squeeze of higher property taxes.
Southbound lanes on a major artery along the East Coast were reopened ahead of Wednesday morning rush hour, nearly a week after being shut down by a fiery tanker crash, according to police.
Traffic in Bridgeport, Connecticut, dragged to a near-halt Friday morning, hours after an oil tanker crashed and burst into a ball of fire on Interstate 95, causing extensive damage to the roadway and forcing officials to close the interstate in both directions.
The U.S. Army has decided to pull the plug on the development of the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter and instead use the money to upgrade its current fleet and replace aging National Guard and Army Reserve helicopters, Pentagon officials said Monday.
A U.S. Army captain, stationed in Iraq since April, remembered his wife in a big way this Valentine's Day.
Money Magazine: Chicago, Illinoisupdated: Tue Nov 19 2002 06:25:00
In Chicago, you've got to choose a side. And we have: the South Side. Many -- including, well, every Chicagoan north of the Loop -- will regard this as bizarre. After all, the North Side is home to some of the city's most prosperous and popular neighborhoods, such as Lincoln Park, Old Town and Lakeview. Those are great places to live, but there are precious few housing bargains left within parking distance of Wrigley Field. That's why even some once diehard North Siders have lately been moving south.
Elsewhere in this magazine you will find a discussion of elephants and how to handle them. That is the central problem of every person's career, from the little fellow who wipes your windshield whe...
Last week I was walking down Sixth Avenue at lunchtime, and I saw about 700 people in the street. Everybody was looking up at one of the big office towers, necks craning, mouths open.
Cathy Young, a hospital worker from Marrero, La., had the kind of routine problem with her bill that any ordinary department store chain handles every day over the phone. Only Young wasn't doing bu...
By day Mark Rozelle, 31, is director of investor relations at UST, a tobacco company in Greenwich, Connecticut. Evenings, after a fast change from pin stripes to paramilitary garb, he's ''Chop,'' l...
WHO ever said that recessions are bad for stocks? In 1991 corporate earnings went south, but stock prices headed north. The Dow slammed through the elusive 3000 barrier early in the year, lifted by...
The attempted bankruptcy filing by Bridgeport, Conn. this summer alerted fund investors to the risks of default in municipal bond funds. But shareholders may be less attuned to a more subtle danger...
Fortune: CREDIT CARD WATCHupdated: Mon Aug 26 1991 00:01:00
Attention, credit card holders who have shopped around for the lowest interest rates: Cash-strapped banks have sold about $9.7 billion of their credit card accounts this year, and some new owners h...
When Bridgeport, Conn. declared bankruptcy in June, municipal bond investors got yet another reminder that the finances of some states and localities are about as secure these days as a rope bridge...
Demographers are the first to admit the inexact nature of their science, which includes projections of U.S. population growth and changes in the country's ethnic mix. But for all the uncertainties,...
''It's a sure thing, as good as money in the bank.'' Yes, we still use that phrase, but last year 168 banks failed and people wonder if anything is sure anymore. Money market funds certainly are no...
With the economy laboring under threats of war and recession, Americans have flocked to cash, shifting billions of dollars into short-term investments. Experts usually advise families to keep the e...
IF THE FUTURE has a voice, it is the voice of youth. To learn more about the world to be, FORTUNE asked a diverse group of 20 mostly high-school-age youths around the country about their expectatio...
You're driving along and suddenly hear on the radio that the Dow has dropped 200 points. Your immediate thought: Race to the nearest phone and tell your broker to sell everything. Don't pull over. ...
Your questions this month are answered with the help of Jack Porter, National Director of Tax Practice for the firm of BDO Seidman in Washington, D.C.
Fortune: A Chocolate Treatupdated: Mon Jan 04 1988 00:01:00
Guess who makes Tootsie Rolls. No, it isn't one of those big food conglomerates about to do an LBO. The answer is Tootsie Roll Industries. For over 90 years the Chicago-based company has been churn...
Amid the public protest over high interest rates on bank credit cards, consumers are learning that low-rate cards aren't always best. The key is how you use your card. The Consumer Credit Card Rati...
FOR CHRISTMAS a year ago, former Max Factor president Linda Wachner wanted a $905-million present: Revlon's cosmetics and perfume business. She wanted it so badly that she spent Christmas day in he...
Now more than ever you must get a grip on your credit cards. Beginning Jan. 1, interest on revolving credit will no longer be fully deductible. Next year you will be able to write off only 65%, and...
FOR CHRISTMAS a year ago, former Max Factor president Linda Wachner wanted a $905-million present: Revlon's cosmetics and perfume business. She wanted it so badly that she spent Christmas day in he...
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