Investors opened 2026 feeling optimistic about the economy, lifting both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fresh records in the first full week of the new year. Friday’s jobs report, ...

A Virginia man took an unfortunate tumble as he reached for a set of keys thrown toward him in front of his home. Luckily for the internet, the fall was captured by the family’s doorbell camera. The ...

During the DUI investigation, a Monmouth Beach officer asks other officers, ""How do we handle this? This sucks." SEA BRIGHT -- The former police chief of this seaside town was arrested and charged ...

The science writer pragmatically shows how optimism can bring about real improvements in everyday life and change in the wider world Can optimism influence events in your life? Does fate smile upon ...

It’s a new year, so let’s look on the bright side of what happened in 2025. Filipinos showed renewed capacity for outrage over wrongdoing. We’re expecting the angry mood, which took a break during the ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday. Flat-headed cats are among ...

There’s something enchanting about candlelight—something uncanny and otherworldly. Something rich and wonderful. Something annoying, too, of course, and something dangerous to anything flammable ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Seven minors are now facing criminal charges over an attack on a woman and her children near a Chicago Public Schools elementary school last month on the South Side, police said. A ...

Decades ago, Bresee’s Department Store in Oneonta showcased holiday-themed mechanical dolls in the windows along Main Street. Some of those dolls are still present within the Oneonta community, ...

California’s petroleum industry regulators are anticipating that the state’s shrinking oil refining capacity could spur more competition in the gasoline market, potentially reducing the likelihood of ...

The location at 14 Dietz St. will house the library’s children section, catered largely to children up to age 12. At about 1,400 square feet, it will be almost double the size of the former children’s ...

Ann Packer’s latest novel, “Some Bright Nowhere,” explores the unexpected rupture that a terminal cancer diagnosis causes in a long and happy marriage. By Joan Silber Joan Silber’s most recent novels ...