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Reports on the higher than expected turnout of voters for the 2004 presidential elections in the United States. Decision of the voters to stand in line no matter how long; Complaints on the incompetence of election workers; Confusion on the use of provisional ballots.

Reports that spiritual leaders in America's churches, synagogues and mosques urged worshipers to vote in the presidential elections and some delivered barely veiled political endorsements in November 2004. Scripture-laden appeals made by political candidates; Emergence of the votes of religious communities as vital amidst the close race for the presidency; Implications on religion and politics.

Reports on the schedule of former U.S. president Bill Clinton's open heart surgery at the Columbia-Presbyterian Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital. Clinton's activities before the surgery; Number of messages received from supporters; Recommendation by cardiologists for Clinton to undergo bypass surgery.

Focuses on the occurrence of fire in Brooklyn, New York City due to lightning. Generation of blast-furnace heat; Injury of firefighters; Burning of the Paradise Mattress Co. facility.

Reports that a gunman shot men to death, wounded others and then killed himself in a meatpacking plant in Kansas City, Kansas. Investigation of the case; Confrontation between the gunman and some victims.

A biography is presented for Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a medical officer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.), who successfully fought the drug manufacturer the William S. Merrell Company regarding its sedative Kevadon (thalidomide). The author explains that thalidomide was causing birth defects, explores how Kelsey impacted pharmaceutical regulation laws, and notes that she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.

The article presents an obituary for physicist Charles H. Townes, noting his role in the development of laser technology.

An obituary for American astronaut Eugene A. Cernan is presented.

An obituary for American social and political activist Tom Hayden is presented.

The article presents an obituary for comedian Joan Rivers.

The article presents an obituary for civil rights activist, preacher, and author Will D. Campbell.

An obituary for actor George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is presented.

An obituary for Chuck Williams, founder of retailer Williams-Sonoma, is presented.

The article discusses damage caused by an April northeaster storm in 2007 that affected Northeast states from Maryland to Maine. The storm was accompanied by heavy rains that caused waters from rivers and the Atlantic to surge, flooding areas and forcing evacuations, school closings, and travel delays.

The article focuses on an E. coli outbreak in New York and New Jersey in November 2006. The bacterial outbreak was traced to food in Taco Bell restaurants. Details related to restaurant closings and effected consumers are included. Comments related to the decision to withhold a public announcement about the breakout are provided by David A. Papi, the director of the Middlesex County Public Health Department.

The article focuses the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The author reviews how thousands gathered at ground zero in New York City, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania to mourn and recite the names of 9/11 victims. Details related to various commemoration ceremonies are reviewed. Excerpts from statements made by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg are included.

This article discusses the way airline passengers are adjusting to the new security rules enacted since the foiled terrorist plot to blow up planes enroute from Great Britain to the U.S. Delays were caused by people carrying liquids and gels that were no longer allowed to be carried on the planes. Some tempers flared and some flights were missed and cancelled, but people generally accepted the delays. By afternoon waiting lines at Kennedy International and La Guardia Airports had eased.

This article reports on a bus accident that took place in near Arica, Chile, and how it has had an impact on the New York and New Jersey area. Ten members of a New Jersey retirement community were killed in the crash. In addition, a couple from Connecticut died in the accident. The twelve people were passengers on a cruise ship that was touring the Pacific coast of South America. The ship, the Celebrity Millennium, is operated by Celebrity Cruises.

Reports on the efforts of rescue workers to locate victims of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast of the United States. Lack of information on the exact number of people who have died; Way that many states have opened up shelters for those who survived but are without homes; Overcrowding that has occurred in several cities as a result of the hurricane; Visits to the affected areas by U.S. President George W. Bush; Criticism of the slow response to the crisis; Description of New Orleans.

Reports that the cruise ships Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Elizabeth 2, including other passenger and cruise ships, will begin docking in Brooklyn, New York instead of Manhattan. Discussion of the forthcoming move by Carnival Corp. to a newly renovated dock in Red Hook; Suggestion that the move will create thousands of new jobs and generate an array of traveler related business; Report that the move will begin to take place in April of 2006.

Reports on the death of a high school student Timothy Stansbury Jr. who was shot by a police at a Brooklyn housing project. Investigation of the case; Description of the shooting incident; Analysis of the shooting.

Reports that the coldest time of the 2004 winter in the Eastern U.S. occurred at dawn in January 10, 2004. Range of low temperatures; Impact of the cold on the weekend life of Americans in the East; Opening of shelters to people without heating; Train schedules in New York City.

Reports on the snowstorm raging across the U.S. Cancellation of several airline flights; Occurrence of several traffic accidents and mortality; Height of snow.

Reports on the heavy rainfall and flooding in the New York and New Jersey areas in August 2003. Delay of air travelers; Report on the traffic delays; Statement that a lightning bolt hit the control tower at La Guardia airport; Businesses that were flooded.

An obituary for Frederick "Fred" DeLuca, co-founder of Connecticut-based sandwich chain Subway, is presented.

An obituary for American playwright, screenwriter and film director Frank D. Gilroy is presented.

An obituary for American photographer Phil Stern, known for his portraits of American celebrities, is presented.

An obituary for American real estate developer and financier Charles Keating is presented.

An obituary for Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., an American prisoner of war (POW) in Vietnam and a former U.S. Navy commander and senator, is presented.

An obituary for Rachel Lambert Mellon, an American horticulturist, philanthropist and heiress of pharmaceutical company Lambert, is presented.

CORRECTION APPENDED They played the bagpipes again and recited the names of the dead like poetry. Bells tolled, and requiems by President Obama and other dignitaries filled the amphitheater of ground zero on Sunday as America looked back upon a contagion of terrorism and war and renewed its vows of remembrance. On the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, as the nation reflected on its losses, thousands of families gathered at the new World Trade Center rising in Lower Manhattan, at the Pentagon and on a field of wildflowers in Pennsylvania to commemorate nearly 3,000 killed on that infamous morning when jetliners were turned into missiles and a new age of terrorism was born. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Donald J. Tyson, an aggressive and visionary entrepreneur who dropped out of college and built his father's Arkansas chicken business into the behemoth Tyson Foods, one of the world's largest producers of poultry, beef and pork, died on Thursday. He was 80 and lived in Fayetteville, Ark. The cause was complications of cancer, Tyson Foods said. Shrewd, folksy and often likened to fellow Arkansans Sam Walton, the late Wal-Mart tycoon, and former President Bill Clinton, Mr. Tyson was a risk-taking, bare-knuckle businessman who bought out dozens of competitors, skirted the edge of the law and transformed a Depression-era trucking-and-feed venture into a global enterprise with an army of employees and millions of customers in 57 countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A monster two-day blizzard barreled up the coast and invaded the New York region and the Northeast on Sunday with barrages of wind-driven snow that closed airports, disrupted rail and highway travel and transformed a dozen states into enchanted and borderless white dreamscapes. With the great abyss of winter yet to be crossed, forecasters in advance were reaching for superlatives, saying it was likely to be one of the biggest blows of the season, with wind gusts up to 55 miles an hour and snow two feet deep in spots. The National Weather Service predicted snowfalls of 16 to 20 inches in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut by Monday afternoon, when the storm was to taper off. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the Watergate scandal, he drew Richard M. Nixonnailing himself to a cross. He stood Dick Cheney at a vast graveyard of veterans, saying, ''For seven years, we did everything to keep you safe.'' And on the frieze over the Supreme Court, he etched the hallowed words: ''Of the insurance co's. By the insurance co's. And for the insurance co's.'' Paul Conrad's rapier editorial cartoons in The Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post and other papers slashed presidents, skewered pomposity and exposed what he saw as deception and injustice for six decades. Subjects squirmed. Readers were outraged and delighted. And he won a host of awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It came up the coast on the last weekend of autumn, a ghostly apparition of midwinter, roaring into the solitude of cities and countrysides from the Carolinas to Cape Cod with blizzardlike ferocity. It closed airports, roads and malls and recreated Whittier's snowbound American landscape for 60 million people. By the time the two-day blow churned to oblivion in the Atlantic on Sunday, a dozen states had been buried. It was not the storm of the century, but two feet of snow lay across Eastern Long Island and parts of Virginia, West Virginia and New Jersey, and nearly that much in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Rhode Island. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An Army psychiatrist facing deployment to one of America's war zones killed 12 people and wounded 31 others on Thursday in a shooting rampage with two handguns at the sprawling Fort Hood Army post in central Texas, military officials said. It was one of the worst mass shootings ever at a military base in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]