Con Ed Ready To Take On Extra Power Demand During Heat Wave
When one summer ends Con Ed begins preparing for the next year's round of extreme heat and humidity.
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When one summer ends Con Ed begins preparing for the next year's round of extreme heat and humidity.
Move over Fashion Week, Restaurant Week, Pride Week and Internet Week. There's a new "week" in town and it's going to be huge. Actually, it's going to be very, very small. And blue.
With temperatures climbing high into the 90s, it's the perfect day to buy a new air conditioner.
The hot weather is taking its toll on everyone, but one homeowner in New Jersey says she had an unwelcomed guest seeking refuge from the heat in her backyard.
George Maragos says he supports development of the county hub, but he's not ready to endorse the $400 million sports and entertainment complex proposal going to a referendum - at least, not yet.
58-year-old Ronald Tackman is the stuff of legend around the courthouse.
Old 2x4s, tree branches, gas cans, soda cans and water bottles. It's all being picked up by a detail of about a dozen prison inmates along the Liberty State Park shoreline over the next couple weeks.
Lower natural gas prices are helping to reduce electricity bills, and Connecticut consumers are getting another break.
St. Sen. David Carlucci is urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign the Power New York Act of 2011.
Health officials in Nassau County are warning residents to boil water before using after the dangerous bacteria E-coli was found in the water supply.
The federal lawsuit was filed by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest on behalf of a parents' group. Department of Education spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz said the 10-year plan is responsible and will cause minimum disruption.
Hempstead police officer Brian Jones is accused of selling prescription painkillers including oxycodone and oxymorphone.
Coolness over nearly 400 acres of Seaside Park will be strickly a state of mind and attitude at a music festival in Bridgeport.
The Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund has a goal of raising $1 million for needy families.
City officials are shooting down a request from the American Association for Nude Recreation to establish a swimsuit optional section at the "People's Playground."
