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Grief grips Binghamton after mass shooting

People who knew the suspected gunman in Friday’s shooting at an immigration services center in Binghamton, New York, were not surprised by his actions, the police chief said. “From the people close to him, the actions that he took were not a surprise to them,” Binghamton Police Chief Joseph Zikuski said Saturday. Wearing body armor and carrying two weapons, Jiverly Wong, 41, used his car to barricade the back door of the American Civic Association, which provides services to immigrants and English classes, authorities said

Laid-off banker finds work as Obama

Regular programming has just been interrupted by a news conference. A slender black man in a suit steps up to a podium, flanked by American flags and a White House logo. “I wish I could announce such an economic package,” he says, “but there is a bank in Turkey that did it

Survivor: ‘I thought that my life was finished’

Zhanar Tokhtabayeba was in an English class at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, when a gunman entered the building and began shooting. The gunman had barricaded the door of the center with his car and nobody could get out. At first, Tokhtabayeba wasn’t sure what was happening

$500K homes now selling for $200,000

The two-story homes on Fir Circle in an upscale Lake Elsinore, California, neighborhood tell two stunningly different tales. Some are vacant, bank-owned and beat-up inside. Others are filled with kids’ laughter and the sounds of boxes unpacking and families moving in

Michelle Obama’s Dress: A Bold Choice in Designer Isabel Toledo

First Lady Michelle Obama picked fashion insider Isabel Toledo, 47, to design her Inaugural ensemble. The glamorous, creamy yellow dress and matching overcoat were made of satin-backed wool guipure, a kind of lace used most often in French haute couture.

It’s down to business as Brown hails new era

After the pageantry and splendor of audiences with the Queen and dinner at Downing Street, G-20 leaders could be forgiven a sense of anti-climax as they arrived for work Thursday for a summit heralding a "new era of international partnership," according to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Affidavit: Madoff associates knew of scheme, joined anyway

Associates of convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff knew he was scamming his clients but joined in anyway because of the big money they could make, a securities investigator testified in a sworn affidavit for a Connecticut court.

Americans weigh in on Obama’s automaker bailout plan

Americans don’t favor handing billions more dollars to U.S.

Three Mile Island at 30: Nuclear Power’s Squandered Potential

If the Three Mile Island atomic reactor near Harrisburg hadn’t melted down 30 years ago this Saturday…well, there probably would have been an accident somewhere else. The entire U.S

Lance Armstrong to take recovery ‘day by day’

Cyclist Lance Armstrong said Thursday the surgery to repair his broken collarbone proved to be more complex than doctors originally anticipated and that he will take his recovery "day by day." “I thought everything went very smooth,” he said in a video to his supporters about Wednesday’s three-hour operation. Doctors in Spain, where Armstrong injured himself Monday when he fell during a race, initially thought he had suffered a simple fracture. However, additional X-rays and CT scans in Austin, Texas, where he lives, proved otherwise