WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State and school districts can now tap their 2010 allocations of stimulus school construction bonds, which total $11 billion, the Treasury and Education Departments said on Wednesday, as the U.S. Congress moved to create more demand for the debt. States can sell a total $6.6 billion of qualified school construction bonds and the largest 103 school ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - In New York City's subway system, self-described vandals who share the name Poster Boy have a political agenda: make passengers question the barrage of advertising they face each day. Skilled with razors, they cut up poster ads for movies, television shows, or consumer products in mere minutes, rearranging letters and images to alter the meaning ...

The powerful nor'easter had moved out at sea, but flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities. Many places from the mid-Atlantic to New England were still inundated with water, with tens of thousands of people lacking electricity and hundreds still in emergency shelters — some for a ...

Urban beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret. The city's health board voted Tuesday to overturn a longtime ban on beekeeping within city limits. Previously, the city's health code had placed honeybees ...