A writer in Brooklyn is celebrating four years of giving her friends a fistful of cash and challenging them to find interesting ways to donate.

No one else was believed to be buried in the rubble of a power plant that exploded Sunday, leaving the death toll at five, the mayor said.

Results of a crime data survey have made critics and admirers of Mayor Bloomberg wonder about the reliability of data underpinning policy decisions on the budget, education and other issues.

No one else was believed to be buried in the rubble of a Connecticut power plant that exploded Sunday, leaving the death toll at five, the mayor said on Monday.

Amid the power plant’s twisted beams and cracked flooring, officials suspended the search for survivors early Monday, fearing for the rescue workers’ safety.

The police said the circumstances of the shooting, which left a sheriff’s officer in critical but stable condition, were not clear.

A former doctor’s effort to help small family farms in the Northeast stay in business by marketing and distributing their milk on their own.

Efforts to find survivors are hindered by an absence of information about how many people were working at the site.

New York residents allowed that crime statistics might be a bit fudged, but said there was no dispute that their neighborhoods felt safer.

The Kleen Energy Systems construction site had faced hurdles through the years, including the indictment of a partner in a price-fixing case involving trash.