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Randall Bell makes house calls in some of the world's most forbidding places. And not just any houses, but properties touched by carnage, natural disasters and other headline-grabbing tragedies. So [...]

Byline: ALISON LEIGH COWAN and CHOE SANG-HUN BEDFORD, N.Y. -- With its blue-and-gold regalia and its link to French royalty, the chocolate shop by the Bedford Hills train station looked [...]

GREENWICH, Conn. -- Sal Materia and his brother Enzo have made a patch of heaven for themselves here on Greenwich's western fringe. There is a gambrel-roofed house, a patio filled [...]

For months now, about a dozen mayoral hopefuls have been running around New York City, popping up at candidate screenings, forums and subway stations. Recently, one candidate even passed out [...]

Last year, Malibu, Calif., was one of several thousand communities across the country that received federal grants intended to improve the lot of low- and moderate-income residents. But instead of [...]

LONG ISLAND TRANSPORTATION GAS RATIONING TO END Nassau and Suffolk Counties announced Thursday that they would end gas rationing at 11:59 p.m. Friday. Vehicles had been designated to fill up [...]

Connecticut POWER WAITING FOR HOUSE CALLS Connecticut homeowners who were fortunate enough to have their power restored more than a week ago by Connecticut Light and Power or United Illuminating [...]

In these hard times, New York's future governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, has made a point of standing alongside consumers who are down on their luck. As attorney general, he conducted [...]

By the end of his life, Samuel Langhorne Clemens had achieved fame as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, a globe-trotting lecturer and, of course, the literary genius who wrote [...]

Here, amid her homemade pickles and jams, Nicole Corey keeps New York City agencies and those of its neighbors supplied with flock-lined latex gloves, safety vests, watches and disposable smocks. [...]

FOR a little more than a decade, the city has auctioned off rights to sell Christmas trees at locations managed by the Parks and Recreation Department. The program generated $144,959 [...]

After he came to America from Korea more than three decades ago, Jang Do wanted what many immigrants have always wanted: to fit in. So he decided to Americanize his […]

Standard Form 152 is not a famous federal form like the IRS 1040. But for more than four decades, it has been assigned the job of standing sentry over other […]

Wall Street is down, but the paddles were up, up, up at an auction at Cipriani this month that raised more than $500,000 for the Trevor Day School from parents […]

It was here in the third-floor billiard room where America's greatest humorist used to hole up when the bustle of his house, and the nursery one flight below, became too […]

For years, City Councilwoman Sandy Annabi of Yonkers was among the most vigorous critics of an enormous $600 million development proposal that called for 1,000 housing units, shops and a […]

As his wealthy, pampered life as an ambitious real estate developer was caving in around him, Andrew M. Kissel grew close to the one person who had stayed with him […]

Cubicles built for four are crammed with eight inmates, and enclosed areas known as dollhouses where inmates once played cards and wrote letters now hold 14 bunk beds. The corridors […]

Along with plastic toys and bicycles, the backyard of the day care center was littered with broken glass and a rusting Toyota Corolla resting on a jack. Photographs of the […]

A woman who is accused of leaving her 14-year-old daughter in charge of a squalid day care center here while she traveled to Florida last week surrendered on Tuesday to […]

Senator John McCain made his pitch to this gilded shoreline suburb back in April. Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts came on May 7, followed one night later by former […]

Student productions at Wilton High School range from splashy musicals like last year's 'West Side Story,' performed in the state-of-the-art, $10 million auditorium, to weightier works like Arthur Miller's 'Crucible,' […]

Monthly electric bills for Connecticut residents, already among the highest in the nation, are likely to jump again in January, with regulators poised to approve rate increases starting on Monday. […]

By her own admission, Pamela C. Gluckin stole $4 million from taxpayers in the years she ran the business affairs of the Roslyn school district on Long Island. A former […]

Victims seeking refuge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were airlifted to the Northeast yesterday, arriving at Cape Cod, where they will be temporarily housed in a rejuvenated barracks at […]

When two prominent local residents, Lee and Eunice Hanson, lost their son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter on one of the planes that flew into the World Trade Center on Sept. […]

Neither man knew much about Connecticut before being hired last February to tackle one of the state's greatest political crises in years: Should Gov. John G. Rowland be impeached? Steven […]

Wearing a harness over her swimsuit, and smiling as she waited to be whisked across a lake on a giant clothesline-like contraption, 14-year-old Ayn Wisler ticked off everything that was […]

On the morning of March 19, Dr. Kenneth I. Berns, chief executive of Mount Sinai Medical Center, was preparing for a meeting with union officials when he received a visit […]

DURING one particularly nasty agricultural recession, as farmer after farmer was forced to abandon the land, Congress reached out to help, creating a company to offer them easier credit, the […]

In the week after the Sept. 11 attacks, Abdullah bin Laden picked up the telephone at his penthouse in Cambridge, Mass., and began dialing for some expert advice. This time, […]

The Harvard Business Review is going through its third management shakeup in 18 months. Last week, The Review quietly informed its staff that it was bringing back Nan Stone, an […]

MOST investors are wary of managements that hype their stocks. What they don't realize is that with bankrupt companies, they can get just as burned by managers who are purposely […]

AS a group, the nation's money managers are outperforming the market so far this year, buoyed in large part by a favorable climate for small and medium-sized stocks, estimates released […]

To its 200,000 readers, the Harvard Business Review is often the last word on the art of management. To its staff, past and present, it is a poorly run organization, […]

Randall D. Smith Jr., one of the best-known traders of securities of troubled companies, is reorganizing the brokerage firm he founded so that he can focus on his own investments, […]

The Krieble family of Hartford is a frustrated bunch. Millionaires many times over, the Kriebles are the Rockefellers of the glue business, but they are having trouble getting a premium […]

With the stock market finally snapping back after months of uncertainty because of events in the Persian Gulf, the nation's money managers saw the estimated value of their equity portfolios […]

LEAD: After a punishing third quarter, the nation's money managers saw the estimated value of their portfolios decline an average of 14.5 percent in the first nine months of the […]

LEAD: When the family that founded the Cummins Engine Company bought out an unwelcome suitor last July, family members made much of the fact that the $72 million they had […]

LEAD: Donald C. Carter, the flamboyant adviser to a generation of takeover artists, resigned his administrative duties yesterday at the Carter Organization, the firm he founded in 1974 to solicit […]

LEAD: William F. Taggart is an entrepreneur who once founded his own driving-school business and made it work. Now he thinks he can make the Purolator Courier Corporation work. William […]

LEAD: Move over, leveraged buyout. The 'leveraged recap' has arrived. Move over, leveraged buyout. The 'leveraged recap' has arrived. Multimedia pioneered it in 1985, the Holiday Corporation did it last […]

LEAD: Prices of Treasury issues did an about-face yesterday and rose in mild trading, especially on instruments with shorter maturities. Prices of Treasury issues did an about-face yesterday and rose […]

LEAD: The management of the Hospital Corporation of America yesterday made a formal offer of $51 a share, or roughly $4 billion, for the Nashville-based hospital chain. The management of […]

LEAD: THEY were taking turns at the microphone a few weeks ago in the auditorium of Shearson Lehman Brothers' data-processing center in downtown Manhattan. About 225 managers entrusted with carrying […]