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Dec. 11: Members of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner use a stretcher remove the body of Mark Madoff from the apartment building in which he lived in the Soho neighborhood of New York.

NEW YORK – A law enforcement official says Bernard Madoff's eldest sons was found hanging by a dog leash in his living room, dead of an apparent suicide...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- Fox 41 News has learned that the superintendent of the Paoli Community School Corp. in Indiana was arrested after police say he intentionally backed into a trooper's car.

According to a news release obtained by Fox 41 News, Dr. Alva L. Sibbitt, Jr. was driving a silver 2007 Chrysler van without a seat belt on...

MUMBAI, India — When it was introduced in early 2009, the egg-shaped Tata Nano was billed as a modern-day people’s car, an ultracheap vehicle that would bring greater mobility to the masses of India and, eventually, the world. But those ambitions have stalled — for now,...

MINEOLA, N.Y. — Facing a huge budget deficit when he took office in January, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano did not impose a hiring freeze. He did not stop borrowing to subsidize some of the richest school districts in the country. He did not eliminate the Police Department’s beloved mounted unit.


Instead, Mr. Mangano, a Republican...

Anyone walking into the middle of the news conference Friday afternoon at the White House would be forgiven for wondering whether Bill Clinton was back for a command performance as leader of the free world.
Clinton -- who for the record has been out of the president's office for a decade -- stood in front of the White House logo and took...