New York City fire officials say five people _ including three children _ are dead after fire swept through a Manhattan apartment building.

A black Columbia University teacher who reported finding a noose on her door is suing the New York City school for firing her after a plagiarism investigation.

Gold and silver plummeted Friday after Wall Street posted another big loss and forced investors to dump holdings in precious metals to raise badly needed cash.

Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials rocket within a 1,000 point range before closing with a...

“There’s nothing that’s come anywhere near this.”

The teachers’ union for the nation’s largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the...

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange:

Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that left stocks with a widely mixed finish. Late-day buying helped curb steep losses and gave the...

PepsiCo, the nation’s second-largest beverage company, said Friday it was launching a new marketing campaign to refocus attention on soft drinks, which have seen...

Wall Street has ended a wild session with its best showing of the week after investors went in search of bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive...

Wall Street has ended a wild session with its best showing of the week after investors went in search of bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive...

Energy stocks plunged Friday as crude and natural gas prices dropped to levels not seen in more than a year.

Wall Street seesawed Friday, with the Dow Jones industrials spinning from an early loss of nearly 700 points to a 100-point late-session advance while investors looked...

Sellers of insurance on bonds issued by bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. are now likely to face demands that they pay out more than 91 cents on the dollar to...

Oil prices plunged in another violent sell-off Friday, briefly tumbling below $78 a barrel as investors grow more pessimistic about the prospects for resolving a...

Wall Street extended its devastating decline Friday as investors, still seeing no resolution to the credit crisis, sold frantically and propelled the Dow Jones...

Lars Ulrich, songwriter and drummer for the heavy-metal band Metallica, is selling a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting from his art collection that could set a new auction...

Morgan Stanley Inc. shares plunged Friday as investors questioned the investment bank’s future even with a major investment from Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ...

Governments around the world have slashed interest rates and ramped up their lending to unprecendented levels, but banks are still charging each other extremely high...

Oil prices briefly plunged below $79 a barrel Friday, dropping to the lowest level in nearly 13 months as investors grow more pessimistic about the prospects for...