David Porter was a naval officer and a diplomat, not a professional writer; he wrote Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1815) and Constantinople and Its Environs (1835) at his friends' insistence, not to fulfill his literary aspiration. Yet...

Some teenagers who drink over the weekend could be in big trouble come Monday morning: A New Jersey school district plans to institute random urine tests capable of detecting whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier.Pequannock Township High, with about 800 students, said...

An FBI agent was killed in a shootout with three bank robbery suspects Thursday in north central New Jersey, a law enforcement official said.The FBI confirmed that agent Barry Lee Bush, assigned to the Newark FBI Office, was shot and killed while working a criminal...

Some teenagers who drink over the weekend could be in big trouble come Monday morning: A New Jersey school district plans to institute random urine tests capable of detecting whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier.Pequannock Township High, with about 800 students, said...

The North Carolina student who performed as a mascot for the school's basketball team died three days after being struck by a car before an NCAA tournament game.Jason Ray died Monday morning, said Steve Kirschner, the university's associate athletic director for communications. He was 21.Ray...