Labor Day News

Perhaps it was the Labor Day crowds or maybe the warm weather, but tourism increased in September.

Jordyn Boucher is coming home after a two-month stay at Children's Hospital in Boston and her family is asking the Seacoast community to help welcome her home.

Mikey was a special needs child but as Officer Tony Guzzello points out "he was special not because of his disabilities, but because of his abilities." Sadly, Mikey passed away in his sleep over Labor Day at the age of 24.

I've never really outgrown Halloween, but what I have in mind and heart, are memories of the old, non-commercial Halloweens when the retailers didn't start selling costumes and spooky decorations the day after Labor Day.

A Placer jury said Friday a Reno man was guilty of murder but he did not torture or poison the victim.

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Officials examine the area on the Bay Bridge where a cable snapped, hitting three cars causing one injury.

An interim legislative committee plans to take up the issue of school start dates again on Monday.

A family of four dogs that have been orphaned since September may have a new home.

It started as a fever Labor Day weekend. Denny Sack told his wife Janice he thought he was getting better and could ride it out like most bugs.

Oct. 15--Leaf peepers have been pouring into the state for Maine's annual pageant of multihued foliage, giving a needed boost to the tourism industry that got off to a slow start this summer.

A movement to change the school start date in the Sioux Falls district has people on both sides of the issue voicing concerns.

The Monterey County Fair will move to Sept. 1-6 next year, ending on Labor Day, fair directors decided unanimously Thursday.

RICHMOND - Republican Bob McDonnell raised about $3.8 million in his campaign for governor during September, about $300,000 more than his Democratic rival R. Creigh Deeds.

Each year nationally we recognize those who are patient, strong willed and who seem to spoil us the most: Grandparents.

Caltrans officials today plan to conduct a ceremony celebrating the completion of the widening of Interstate 238 - marking the end of a three-year construction project and hopefully a major traffic bottleneck.

By Debra Hazel BJ's Wholesale NEW YORK CITY-Is a retail bounce-back under way? September 2009 US comparable-store sales rose 0.1% from the same month of 2008, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers Chain Store Sales Index.

A year ago this weekend, the Dow Jones industrial average had just finished a slow-motion crash.

US retailers have recorded their first monthly sales increase in more than a year.

Retailers saw their first overall sales gain in 14 months in September, a sign that shoppers have loosened their death grip on wallets and an indication that the Christmas shopping season might not be as grim as expected.