<div><p>First it was a "low-down, muddy, tidal place." Some Native Americans called it "Aquehonga Manacknong, or 'haunted woods.'" In the 1600s, it was settled by "French Huguenots, Walloons, and freed slaves." Henry David Thoreau used to dig for arrowheads there. Brickmakers dug for clay there. John Muir explored there. And then New York dumped ...

<div><p>Unwashed hipsters disembark the L train and flood Manhattan for the final day of the CMJ music festival, clad in high-top sneakers, gray jeans in a children’s size, and a few fake tattoos. Sway to the soothing sounds of bands Die! Die! Die!, The Art of Shooting, Charm City Devils, Iran, the Muslims ...

<div id="subtitle">VP candidate's parents are professional rat killers, helped in 9/11 response</div><div><p>More than six years before Sarah Palin visited ground zero as the Republican vice presidential nominee, her parents were there as part of the response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — trapping rats ...

<div id="subtitle">Judge rejects lawsuit seeking to move Sept. 11 remains from landfill to proposed cemetery</div><div><p>A judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit brought by several families of Sept. 11 terrorism victims that sought to move World Trade Center debris, which may contain human remains, from a landfill ...