NEW JERSEY

New Jersey alternative rock band, My Chemical Romance, fired their drummer, Michael Pedicone, claiming that he was caught stealing from the band.

Katia strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane Monday night but is unlikely to hit the U.S. East Coast, the National Hurricane Center said.

Vermont residents, already max-out with clean-up and repair work in dozens of villages/towns from Hurricane Irene/Tropical Storm Irene, unfortunately are about to be hit with up to another 4 inches of rain in the next two days on already swollen rivers/streams and saturated ground.

A look back at a brief history of Labor Day and what is open and what is closed.

New Jersey is not usually the face of natural disasters. But it became just that on Sunday, when President Obama visited the state to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Katia is maintaining strength and direction on Friday, and while a direct strike on the U.S. is not highly likely at this time, the storm could still take a path similar to what Hurricane Earl did last year, with impact along the East Coast without making landfall late next week. Also, a U.S. strike remains a possibility since storm forecast models so far in advance high a high margin of error. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lee is drenching the U.S. Gulf Coast, with the worst yet to come. ...

Workers active at 169 production platforms and 16 drilling rigs have been evacuated till now and the shutting-in procedures have been activated at all the production platforms.

James Gandolfini might want to pack a parka for his next project.

Give credit to the co-manager of trading at Themis Trading, Sal Arnuk, for encapsulating Friday's lousy economic data, slumping stock market and clueless American president.

Tropical Depression 13, which continued to move toward the Gulf Coast on Friday, has winds up to 35 miles per hour, but the region can't rest easy. The storm may not be packing hurricane-force winds when it hits New Orleans, but it could drench the city with up to 20 inches of rain and cause severe flooding.

U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging consumer confidence discouraged already skittish U.S. businesses from hiring, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to provide more monetary stimulus to aid the economy.

It is a mistake to focus just on a hurricane's wind speed. Of the most catastrophic hurricanes in United States history, the majority were so devastating because of the flooding caused by a combination of heavy rainfall and storm surges, not because of the winds themselves.

As the chances of a low-pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico turning into a tropical depression in next two days increase and reach around 70 percent, major oil and natural gas companies functioning in the U.S-regulated areas of the Gulf of Mexico have stopped their operations and started evacuating their employees.

U.S. President Barack Obama ordered federal assistance to supplement a number of storm-battered areas and counties in New Jersey, days after Hurricane Irene hit the entire Eastern seaboard on August 27, 2011.

Tropical Storm Katia is now a Category 1 hurricane, but its impact on the United States, if any, remained unclear as it continued to strengthen on Thursday.

President Barack Obama declared Wednesday a number of towns, cities and counties in New Jersey as major disaster areas and ordered federal assistance to supplement storm-battered areas affected by Hurricane Irene on August 27, 2011, and days after.

Kim and Kris will begin their first full month of marriage living with Kourtney Kardashian, her husband Scott, and their son Mason. On Monday, Sept. 5, filming will begin for Kim's spin-off show--Kourtney and Kim Take New York.

Hurricane Irene may heap billions of dollars of extra costs on the already fragile U.S. economy, but insurance companies are likely to emerge relatively unscathed.

Unseeded teen-ager Christina McHale struck a blow for emerging young U.S. women's players by beating France's eighth-seeded Marion Bartoli 7-6 6-2 to reach the third round of the U.S. Open Wednesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama has declared that there is a major disaster in New Jersey and plans to visit the state on Sunday. According to information from the White House, Obama has signed a New Jersey disaster declaration and has ordered that federal aid supplement the state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Irene.

Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the northeast devastated by Hurricane Irene but many communities were still underwater on Wednesday and relief workers battled cut-off roads and raging rivers to deliver emergency supplies.