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The 45,000 land-line employees who have been on strike for two weeks will return to work Tuesday, though contract negotiations are ongoing. Thousands of striking Verizon telecom workers will return to work Tuesday, though their contract dispute isn't over yet.

A man suspected of terrorizing women with sexual assaults from Virginia to Rhode Island over a span of 12 years as the so-called East Coast Rapist has been arrested in Connecticut, federal and local authorities said.

An East Coast blizzard that has shut down airports in New York and New England could leave passengers stranded for days.

Winds whipped across the East Coast on Wednesday as the region wrestled with yet another day of heavy rain and severe weather that knocked out ...

The driving rain flooded subway tracks, expressways and streets in the New York metropolitan area.

Southwest Airlines will purchase AirTran Holdings for $1.04 billion in cash and stock in a deal that will allow Southwest to expand its presence in major East Coast markets.

The intense heat this summer wasn't a mirage for the tens of millions of people in the eastern and southern USA.

Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

A weakened hurricane Earl skirts past North Carolina's Outer Banks and continues up the US east coast as a "category two" storm.

As Hurricane Earl continues to spin toward the East Coast, authorities in North Carolina are ordering more people to get out of the way.