By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press

SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) - The average New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Superstorm Sandy, according to a survey that is sure to intensify a long-running debate on whether federal dollars should be used to replenish stretches of sand that only a fraction of U.S. taxpayers use.

Some of

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Former Sen. Warren B. Rudman, who co-authored a ground-breaking budget balancing law, championed ethics and led a commission that predicted the danger of homeland terrorist attacks before 9/11, has died. He was 82.

He died Monday night, according to his Washington, D.C., firm,

Last August 7th, someone stole from Avis Taylor, a joy no one can replace.

Avis Wilson described her son as a likable person.  He was the father of four girls, the youngest just two years old.  "He loved to cook.  A lot of people knew him from his cooking."  "My son was robbed and in the midst of the robbery he was s

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco lawmakers are getting ready to bare their decision on a proposed ban on public nakedness that has sparked indignation in a city known for flouting convention and flaunting its counter-culture image.

The 11-member Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the ordinance, which would prohibit exposed