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A commuter train shook on the tracks and then derailed in a tunnel under the East River shortly after leaving Penn Station on Monday night, forcing the hundreds of passengers on it to be removed and delaying the trip home for many others.

With the president locked in high-level meetings at a secluded hotel in Northern Ireland, first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters took the chance to investigate their Irish roots.

As a child, Jorge Tume used to sit and do homework as his parents cleaned the desks and floors of a concrete company in Miami.

In this Wednesday, June 12, 2013 photo, brothers Jorge Tume, left, and Francis Tume are shown in Miami.

These most recent franchise agreements further expand Blaze Pizza's growing national footprint which includes the West Coast , the Northeast , the Midwest and the Southeast .

Many email boxes are flooded with deals for food, shopping and travel, but two new sites want to remove the clutter and boredom to provide kids and couples with ideas for fun activities.

The country's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for the glamour and excitement that goes with her new role -- and she can't wait.

A 22-year-old Chinese woman employed at Dorney Park was walking along Hamilton Boulevard when she was hit by a car and later died on Sept.

After 14 years at a number of venues, the annual mixture of plays and workshops will not return in 2013.

"Gypsy." "Follies." "West Side Story." Did you know these three landmark shows did not win the Best Musical Tony Award? Peter Filichia does and he's fashioned a volume, "Stripper, Showgirls, and Sharks," that looks at these and other titles that were passed over for that award.

The famed American artists of the Hudson River School created far more than mere pretty paintings of landscapes.

My sister and I took our positions in the funeral home's family room and greeted hundreds of mourners who had come to pay their respects.

The House, eager to do something about record high gasoline prices in advance of the Memorial Day weekend, voted narrowly Wednesday, May 23, 2007 to approve stiff penalties for those found guilty of gasoline price gouging.

The spirit of volunteerism is alive and well in Chicago today as people spruce up schools, parks and playgrounds for the 20th annual Chicago Cares Serve-a-Thon, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser.

Three exceptional clarinetists and the Midwest's talented Chicago Jazz Orchestra reminded Ravinia Festival audiences why the music of Benny Goodman still excites jazz and big band lovers decades after the "king of swing's" quartet drew a record attendance in 1973.

Is it really less intrusive to collect someone's vital data for eternity than it is to rummage through his papers briefly? John Paul Stevens, the avuncular former justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, gave an interesting speech yesterday at the American Constitution Society Convention in Washington, D.C. Not only did he offer some provocative analysis ... (more)

More than a century after guests at the Crawford House awoke to the "Breakfast Bell Polka," Plymouth State University is reviving some of long-lost music composed specifically to entertain guests at New Hampshire's grand hotels and keep them coming back for more.

A NEW VERSION OF THE RAN RANSOM WEAR COMPUTER VIRUS IS SHOWING UP AGAIN. EXPERTS SAY IT APPEARS TO COME FROM A GOVERNMENT AGENCY AND THEN IT LOCKS YOUR COMPUTER.

Is the big one right around the corner? A new study suggests the entire Pacific Northwest coast is vulnerable to a 9.0 earthquake that could level parts of Seattle.

Last year Roger Berkowitz, CEO of Legal Sea Foods, said the lack of nightlife in Boston's Downtown Crossing made it unlikely that he'd open a restaurant in the shopping district.