CHICAGO Jennifer Hudsons estranged brother-in-law has been arrested in Illinois in the deaths of the singers mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.
NEW YORK The reality that the nation is indeed in recession and that the downturn may well be prolonged sent Wall Street plunging today, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 700 points.
HARWICH The piano found in the Harwich woods Nov. 22 still has no known owner, Harwich police said today, despite national and international publicity.
A member of the state Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission has admitted that he broke the state ethics law by consulting for a group opposed to the 130-turbine wind farm that Cape Wind Associates wants to build in Nantucket Sound.
Presidential-elect Barrack Obama announded his foreign policy team today, led by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, both early supporters of a war in Iraq that he opposed and will be...
WASHINGTON A panel of the National Bureau of Economic Research which determines business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began in December 2007.
SEOUL, South Korea Most Asian stock markets fell today on signs that the U.S. holiday shopping season got off to a tepid start over the key Thanksgiving weekend. Major European markets opened lower.
Authorities finished removing bodies from the bullet- and grenade-scarred Taj Mahal hotel today, the final site of the Mumbai siege to be cleared, as schools and businesses reopened.
The Bush officials backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from same banks that have now failed.
Today is the anniversary of Rosa Parks arrest in 1955 for disobeying an Alabama law that required black people to give up their seats to white people when a city bus was full, and to sit at the back of the bus.
Two presentations on financial aid are coming up in Harwich. A financial aid seminar will be held at 7 pm tonight at the Harwich High School library, 75 Oak Street, for parents of college-bound seniors and the senior class.
NANTUCKET — Concerned about the school system's $1.28 million deficit, Selectman Patty Roggeveen has called for an independent audit of the school budget to investigate its internal controls and management.
Massachusetts consumers may soon be able to order wine on the Internet from anywhere in the country — from the largest wine makers to the smallest family vineyards.
Usually one to two residents a year apply for help paying their heating bills, mortgages or medical bills through three town trust funds administered by selectmen.
Cape Cod Community College will host a forum tomorrow on clean-energy initiatives, featuring an appearance by Ian Bowles, the state's secretary of energy and environmental affairs.
A 19-year-old Marstons Mills man was arrested yesterday following a police search of his Asa Meigs Road home, concluding a narcotics investigation conducted by the Barnstable Police Department, police officials said.
A faulty heating and ventilation system sent carbon monoxide fumes into Shaw's Supermarket in Harwich Port and forced the evacuation of about 70 customers and employees yesterday afternoon.
A 26-year-old Centerville woman was arrested by the Barnstable police yesterday afternoon in connection with an alleged stabbing in Dennisport earlier in the day, police officials said.
Appetizer trays may not be circulating as freely this year, but holiday parties are still going strong despite the economic downturn, Cape caterers say.
After more than 35 years teaching Cape Codders about their changing world, educator Marilyn Lopes is retiring from Barnstable County's Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Service.
Famed author Norman Mailer hosted some of the 20th century's great writers at his Provincetown home. And now, in his memory, his survivors are hoping to bring the best of the next generation to town.