Errol Joseph and his wife, Esther, at their Forstall Street property in New Orleans. Mr. Joseph, 62, had spent his life fixing houses.
As people in the Northeast set off on the road back from Hurricane Sandy, Errol Joseph sees his story in New Orleans as a cautionary tale.
Lawmakers in several states have proposed legislation this year that would require gun owners to buy liability insurance in an effort to promote safe behavior.
A new analysis of nationwide tests in New York, California and other populous states shows shifts, including the growing number of Hispanic students.
The “super PAC” financed by Michael R. Bloomberg is paying for television ads and mailings aimed at defeating a Democrat running for the House in Illinois because she supports gun rights.
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, a leading critic of President Obama’s health care law, said he now backed a three-year expansion of coverage for poor people.
A new study of fish bought and genetically tested in 12 metropolitan areas in the United States found that about one-third of the samples were mislabeled.
Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain, two Arizona Republicans who once led broad efforts on an immigration overhaul and then retreated, are back.
Health experts said the findings offered an encouraging sign that the obesity epidemic might be easing, but cautioned that the magnitude of the decline was small.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend that former Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. receive a sentence of 46 to 57 months in prison.
House Republicans have dug in against President Obama’s proposals to avert $85 billion in wide spending reductions set for March 1, believing they hold the upper hand in this fight.
About 750,000 civilians would experience pay cuts of about 20 percent if budget cuts scheduled for March 1 are not averted, Pentagon officials warned.
The White House may deny Democrats information on targeted killings but tell Republicans more about an attack in Libya to win confirmation for John O. Brennan.
The Obama administration said the rule would let millions gain access to treatment for mental illnesses and other conditions, but some worry about the lack of a national uniform standard of care.
The United States Supreme Court has stated that a lawyer’s “misconduct or gross negligence” may be enough to override the one-year filing deadline for final federal appeal.
Opponents say such laws are meant to suppress turnout by poor and minority voters, but supporters say they prevent fraud.
Worker advocates have persuaded Florida’s two most populous counties to pass ordinances making it easier for workers to recover unpaid wages from employers.
Most states provide information under their freedom of information acts regardless of where the request comes from; Virginia’s exception to this has prompted a lawsuit.
The California university announced earlier this month that its five-year capital campaign took in $6.23 billion.
Timothy M. Dolan, the New York archbishop, spent hours in a legal deposition concerning the sexual abuse of children by priests in the last archdiocese he led.
Victims of bullying, and bullies themselves, are more likely to have an anxiety disorder, panic disorders and other psychiatric problems as adults, a new study has found.
The Supreme Court ruled that a federal judge in Illinois should not have set aside a conviction in that predated a 2010 decision.
The commission proposed to make a big part of the spectrum, some of which is in government hands, available for unlicensed devices like Wi-Fi routers.
Nearly nine years passed before American forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war in Afghanistan. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, after a troop surge in 2010.
Browse a database of business incentives awarded by hundreds of cities, counties and states compiled during a 10-month investigation by The New York Times.
See the share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, veterans’ benefits and food stamps.
Browse data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.
Kalispell, a town in northwestern Montana where gunsmithing helps drive the economy, is not immune to the debate over gun control.
This timeline shows how Independence USA, the “super PAC” created by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, has spent $2.1 million on the campaign to pick Jesse Jackson Jr.’s successor in the House.
For gay Americans with foreign spouses or partners, federal restrictions on what defines marriage mean they sometimes end up uprooting their lives to remain together.
Lawmakers moved closer to passing a package of new restrictions, in a state that has lived in the shadows of two mass shootings.
The ice fishing scene in Minnesota has been more lively this year, thanks to more snow and colder temperatures.
A series of articles and videos chronicling the experiences of military veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan but continue to confront the medical and psychological scars of battle.
This series examines the expectations, disappointments and challenges that shape the lives of Donna Dove, her customers and the city they know intimately, Elyria, Ohio.
February 18, 2013
