The national unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent as the economy added fewer jobs than expected in November, according to U.S. Labor Department figures released today.

Well, the Yankees have wrapped up negotiations with one of their veteran free agents. Red Christian of the New York Daily News reports that closer Mariano Rivera has agreed to terms on a two-year contract worth $30 million and that the agreement will be finalized on Friday.

Hunterdon County is offering a $10,000 bonus to long-serving, highly paid county employees if they agree to resign next year, officials said today.

Three young brothers from Michigan remain missing despite the efforts of police and volunteer searchers working since the boys' disappearance during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

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A bill that would ban businesses from discriminating unemployed candidates from applying for jobs in advertisements has been approved in the Senate after passing in the Assembly, according to a report by APP.com.

More than 24 million Americans watched "Dirty Dancing" actress Jennifer Grey triumph over Bristol Palin to win TV's "Dancing With the Stars" in what network ABC said on Wednesday was the show's biggest audience in three years.

A 15-year-old sophomore, accused of holding 23 classmates and a teacher hostage for about five hours Monday at his northeast Wisconsin high school, fired his two weapons at least five times and had a duffel bag containing more bullets with him, authorities said Tuesday.

On Sunday night, Dec. 5, an estimated 3,500 people and 55 floats will pass by 12,000 to 15,000 spectators, according to Chris Gacos, chairman of the annual Flemington Holiday Parade. The parade, sponsored by the Flemington Raritan Business Association, starts at 7 and is over by 8:30.

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A New Jersey pastor who believes Facebook leads to infidelity has offered to step down over a past affair that involved a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant.

Four people, including three children, were found dead inside a home in a northwest Florida neighborhood Saturday, police said.

A recent terror operation involving parcel bombs on UPS and FedEx flights cost just $4,200, according to a report in a magazine that analysts say is published by al Qaeda's branch in Yemen.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1" posted the franchise's best opening ever by grossing $125.1 million this weekend, according to studio estimates. That figure smashes the wizarding series' prior opening-weekend record of $102.7 million, held by 2005's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

A 47-year-old man faces sexual assault and weapons charges after having sexually explicit chats online with a Passaic County detective posing as a 12-year-old girl, according to a report on NorthJersey.com.