Ten people, including a doctor and a former union president, were arrested early Thursday and charged in a major fraud scheme in which hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers made false disability pension claims costing a federal agency an estimated $1 billion, according to people briefed on the matter. Another doctor charged in the case was being sought, the people said.

European leaders, in a significant step toward resolving the euro zone financial crisis, early Thursday morning obtained an agreement from banks to take a 50 percent loss on the face value of their Greek debt.

Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has told an interviewer he has terrible remorse and horrible nightmares over his epic fraud, but also said he feels happier in prison than he's felt in 20 years.

Three people were shot in separate incidents over a five-hour period Tuesday night and early yesterday, police said yesterday.

It was the beagle, scared but unharmed by the chemicals that were supposed to kill him. There was no going back to the gallows for the miracle dog, destined, it turned out, for the Garden State. Volunteers at the pound took him, brought him to a veterinarian and then put word out to rescue groups around the country - to a little-known network of animal lovers.

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Ms. Mohan, 18, is now one of a surging number of Indian students attending American colleges and universities, as competition in India has grown formidable, even for the best students. With about half of India's 1.2 billion people under the age of 25, and with the ranks of the middle class swelling, the country's handful of highly selective universities are overwhelmed.

In his narrowest escape yet, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi barely survived a confidence vote on Friday, saving his government from collapse but effectively preventing it from legislating.

A 15-year-old Hoboken girl was assaulted in a Downtown Jersey City park Friday night by a group of roughly 30 girls who stole her cellphone, police reports said.

Police say a tow truck driver died after he was struck by a vehicle while loading a car onto his truck in Bergen County early today.

The Parkway loses about $4 million a year from drivers not paying their tolls in the exact change lanes. Beginning Monday, the Parkway will turn on video cameras in its 84 exact change lanes - on both the highway and ramps - to try to catch toll cheats.

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This afternoon, jurors at Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial witnessed a shocking photo of Michael Jackson's dead body during the testimony of the county coroner. He spoke of his autopsy findings and the overall decision to declare the singer's death a homicide.

The late Eric Ross, a New Jersey philanthropist and Holocaust survivor, has left $17.2 million to the Golda Och Academy, a Jewish day school in West Orange, the school announced this week.

Two women say a retired Plainfield police captain did not disclose he was HIV-positive while he had sexual relationships with them, according to authorities.

Bancroft's track record assisting people like Sharpe helped the nonprofit agency land the only contract in New Jersey from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to serve moderately and severely brain-injured members of the armed services.

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That's the question John Harold asked himself last winter when he was trying to figure out how much help he would need to harvest the corn and onions on his 1,000-acre farm here in western Colorado.

Punctually, at 8 o'clock every evening, the cellphone signals disappear in this provincial capital. Under pressure from the Taliban, the major carriers turn off their signal towers, effectively severing most of the connections to the rest of the world.