BRADENTON, Fla. -- The presidential debate Wednesday night never mentioned the words $2.2 trillion: that's how much the banks, brokerage and investment houses and insurance companies have so far taken from the American people's Treasury of the United ...

It was the summer of 1832, and President Andrew Jackson was fleeing the notorious Foggy Bottom humidity for his home in Nashville, Tenn. Somehow he misplaced an important cache of papers along Washington's Post Road; they either dropped from his ...

Leaders brace for deficit: Minnesota House and Senate fiscal analysts are predicting a deficit of as much as $4 billion for the coming two-year budget period. The prediction was contained in a chart shown to members of a legislative planning panel ...

After more than a decade of business at 3016 W. 56th St. in the Armatage neighborhood, East Meets West Massage & Bodywork is moving April 1 to a new space at 2826 W. 43rd St. in Linden Hills. Owner Tim Munshower said the first six months of his ...

Advance file photo Gabriel Farini, 8, was one of many youngsters who attended last year's Poor People's Dinner. Project Hospitality is holding its annual Poor People' Dinner tonight at the Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island's Bloomfield community ...

Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger Judy Ortman, interim executive director of the Concordia Learning Center, is interviewed by student Indigo Estevez from Newark for the school paper. There's a buzz in the newsroom of a New Jersey start-up newspaper, and not ...

All the entries posted in November. Instead of chewing their cuticles over the economy, the owners of Tongue & Groove actually are thrilled to be back on the scene, nearly a year and a half after shuttering the nightclub’s original address in ...

City residents in southeast and central Fort Lauderdale are guaranteed new representation in City Hall in 2009, and three people who want to provide that service will face off on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The Croissant Park neighborhood is hosting a ...

ARMATAGE — Principal Joan Franks was working with district and city officials to head-off what she termed “an accident waiting to happen” near Armatage Community and Montessori School in February. Franks said traffic near the intersection of ...

Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. We’ve been following the saga of California’s Proposition 8 rather closely since its passage on Tuesday (click here and here ). The basics ...