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The late-summer lull is about to end. Stocks fell Thursday, with investors too worried about high gas prices and stagnant employment to be impressed by higher consumer spending.

The latest budget figures from the White House predict this year's federal budget deficit will end up at $1.2 trillion.

New Jersey's second largest city is preparing to honor a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.

A mistrial has been declared in the campaign fraud trial against ex-presidential candidate John Edwards.

What you think might be healthier versions of junk foods really are not.

Highway deaths declined again last year, reaching their lowest rate when compared to miles driven since such record-keeping began in 1921, according preliminary government data released Monday.

Pothole-filling season is underway for the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

The police department in Newark is undergoing a technology upgrade.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday called for 20 percent across-the-board cuts in personal income tax rates as part of a program to help the economy grow.

Kids have easy and inexpensive access to hundreds of smartphone applications, but parents are in the dark about what personal information is being collected from their children and how companies are using the data, government regulators said Thursday.