ON Gilt.com, where shoppers vie for limited-time discounts on designer brands, a Kate Spade cabana-stripe medium tote bag was recently $169, plus $5.95 shipping. That same day, the bag was on KateSpade.com for $130 with free shipping - about $45 cheaper.

PEOPLE who want to enjoy the eye-popping effects of 3-D movies at home, far from the multiplex, usually do so on a 3-D television set.

Occupy Wall Street protesters have touched a nerve with their slogan, "We are the 99 percent." It has focused attention on the ground gained by the rich even as a brutal economy has pushed the typical American family backward. Economic inequality may or may not become a central issue in the presidential race, but the candidates have at least one reason to hope it does not.

Is it timely? Is it clever? Does it fit? From New England down to Maryland on Saturday, revelers heading to weekend Halloween parties added a new criterion to choosing a costume: How would it fare in a northeaster?

KABUL, Afghanistan - At least five American soldiers, eight American contract workers and four Afghans were killed when a Taliban suicide car bomber attacked an armored shuttle bus in Kabul on Saturday, a military official said.

LEBANON TWP. - Karah Conroy, a Voorhees High School sophomore who was hospitalized following an accident the morning of Oct. 26 on Route 31 in Glen Gardner, has died.

Rutgers fifth-year senior center Caleb Ruch is scheduled to earn his degree in criminal justice in December. But he hasn't exactly mapped out the career path one might expect.

LEBANON TWP. - More than a dozen people who attended a party on Rockwood Lane on Sept. 24 now face charges including underage drinking and obstructing justice. According to the police report released today, someone called police at about 2:15 a.m. to report a loud party. When officers arrived, they said they could hear what sounded like a verbal confrontation. They also saw two young men and a young woman outside in front of the garage

AN eye for fashion is difficult to acquire. Even the world's leading designers stumble from season to season, earning raves with floral bandeau tops in spring and ridicule for leather shorts in autumn.

WASHINGTON - The 2012 elections are likely to mark the new "year of the woman" in the Senate. For better or worse.

TUNIS - Like the flight of Tunisia's dictator or the trial of Egypt's, the capture of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Thursday afternoon captivated the Arab world, giving a renewed sense of power and possibility. But the photographs of his bloody corpse that circulated just moments later on cellphones and television screens quickly tempered that exhilaration with a reminder of the many still-unresolved conflicts that the Arab Spring has also unleashed.

ST. LOUIS - Ty Cobb hit .240 as a rookie. Willie Mays started 1 for 26. With Albert Pujols, there was no progression. From the moment he arrived in the major leagues, on opening day 2001, he was the best player in the game. Three Most Valuable Player awards and three World Series into his career, he still is.

Google's earnings report Thursday highlighted its mobile business's growing contribution to revenue. But can mobile ever be as big a business as desktop search?

Not far from the Major Deegan Expressway in the South Bronx is an abandoned subway platform where someone placed a plastic chair, a flimsy mattress and a nightstand. Nearby, in an old construction site, a truck trailer is lined with enough discarded furniture that it looks like a makeshift bedroom.

PHOENIX - Ken Alandt's guitar, which he covered with bumper stickers and waved in the air at the Occupy Phoenix protest on Monday, is a symbol of the movement itself - a mélange of disparate causes, all of which prompt his blood to boil.

JERUSALEM - An Israeli soldier held for more than five years by the militant Palestinian group Hamas was traded on Tuesday for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in an elaborate exchange that could shake up regional politics.

COPIAPÓ, Chile - After his dramatic rescue from a mine last year, Jimmy Sánchez traveled the world, cruising the Greek islands, visiting Britain, Israel, Los Angeles, Disney World - all paid for by people who were moved by the Chilean miners' story of courage and perseverance.

DENVER - Whatever the original impulse behind "Occupy Wall Street," or the speculation of what the movement might become, this much is true: The groups of protesters, now camping or hanging out in many American cities, and the police agencies that have responsibility for public safety and order, are both shifting into new postures of action and response

A lot, apparently. Apple's new iPhone is called the iPhone 4S. But what people really wanted was the iPhone 5. The rumors online had predicted the second coming - or, rather, the fifth coming. It would be wedge-shaped! It would be completely transparent! It would clean your basement, pick you up at the airport and eliminate unsightly blemishes!

PERTH AMBOY - A state corrections officer was arrested and charged with buying drugs moments before police were about to raid the alleged dealer's home, authorities said.