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Police: Nanny stabbed kids to death

David B. Caruso, Meghan Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 26, 2012 - 5:49pm

NEW YORK — The nightmarish case of a nanny accused of stabbing to death two children in her care stunned the family’s well-to-do neighborhood and caused legions of parents to wonder how well they know who is watching their kids.

Crime, Murder, National Read more Comments

This black and white inmate booking photo released by the New Hampshire Department of Corrections shows William P. Coyman, of Boston, who had been sentenced to prison for theft and drug possession. In August 2011, Coyman, who had a criminal history dating back to 1955, collapsed on the platform as he stepped off an Amtrak train at Pennsylvania Station in New York City and died. As medics tried to revive him, police searched his backpack for identification, and found $179,980 in cash bundled with rubber bands and tucked inside two plastic bags. (AP Photo/New Hampshire Department of Corrections)

Death on train platform leads to $180k mystery

David B. Caruso The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 11:51am

NEW YORK -- The mystery began with a heart attack, a man with a past, and a bag of money that federal authorities now want to keep.

DEA, Mystery, Teamsters, National Read more Comments

(MARY ALTAFFER/The Associated Press) In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests confront New York City police officers as they march on the street in the Wall Street area. One month after the Occupy Wall Street movement burst onto the scene and inspired similar protests across the country, it remains stubbornly decentralized, complicating everything from enforcing camp rules to writing a national platform.

Can ‘Occupy’ protests last without leaders?

Chris Hawley, David B. Caruso The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 4:43pm

NEW YORK — They were out to change the world, overthrow the establishment and liberate the poor. But first somebody would have to do something about those bongo drums.

Leadership, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, National Read more Comments

Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme

David B. Caruso The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 3:27pm

NEW YORK -- An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was "not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme," federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Crime, Poker, Ponzi scheme, National Read more Comments

Pa. allows dumping of tainted waters from gas boom

David B. Caruso, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 3, 2011 - 4:11pm

The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.

Not in Pennsylvania, one of the states at the center of the gas rush.

Natural gas, Pollution, National Read more Comments

Most 9/11 responders settle suits over WTC dust

David B. Caruso The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 12:20pm

NEW YORK -- More than 10,000 workers exposed to the tons of toxic dust that blanketed ground zero after the World Trade Center fell have ended their bruising legal fight with New York City and joined a settlement worth at least $625 million, officials said Friday.

The deal will resolve an overwhelming majority of the lawsuits over the city's failure to provide protective equipment to the army of construction workers, police officers and firefighters who spent months clearing and sifting rubble after Sept. 11.

Courts, September 11, World Trade Center, National Read more Comments

Underground broker network a bane in terror probes

David B. Caruso The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 14, 2010 - 7:26am

NEW YORK -- Long before there was MoneyGram and Western Union, people in South Asian countries often used an informal network of brokers, called an "hawala," to transfer money over long distances when it was too inconvenient or dangerous to send cash by courier.

Terrorism, National Read more Comments

2 suspended after child radioed pilots at JFK

David B. Caruso The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 7:08pm

NEW YORK -- As planes waited to take off from Kennedy Airport, the jargon-packed radio chatter between controllers and pilots was interrupted by a young boy's voice: "JetBlue 171, cleared for takeoff."

Odds & Ends, Safety Read more Comments