Northeast

A Maine man who won the $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot at the beginning of the year is suing the mother of his child for allegedly revealing his lottery win to his family.

New York was ranked as one of the least free state based on a recently released analysis of economic, social and personal freedoms by the Cato Institute.

The owners of an East Coast luxury jewelry store chain are giving their family business to longtime employees with hopes to carry on the legacy of the original founder.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James has sued PepsiCo, demanding that it help clean plastic pollution along the Buffalo River and put warnings on its plastic packaging.

The ongoing strike by the Portland Association of Teachers has kept about 45,000 students in Portland Public Schools out of the classroom since Nov. 1.

An armed carjacking of a UPS truck in a Maryland neighborhood was caught on video from a neighbor's doorbell camera.

Police in New York City are looking for the person delivering an Uber Eats order who ran into a 9-year-old boy getting off a school bus Wednesday night.

A painting by Pablo Picasso has sold for $139.4 million in New York, the second-highest price ever achieved for the artist The masterpiece, known as “Femme à la Montre."

A Pittsburgh-area man was arrested on Oct. 31 after he allegedly assaulted a McDonald's employee when his iced coffee order was made incorrectly, Pennsylvania State Police said.

The University of Pennsylvania is among Ivy League schools dealing with backlash from deep-pocketed donor graduates over the school's tolerance of pro-Palestine groups and antisemitism.

On Tuesday morning, Massachusetts first responders arrived at an AT&T building and found that a 44-year-old man had been electrocuted.

A New York City landlord is being accused of lighting his own townhouse on fire after the upstairs tenants stopped paying rent and refused to move out.

Target will not open a new store location in Philadelphia's University City neighborhood despite beginning construction, according to reports.

New York Attorney General Letitia James reached a historic $328 million settlement with rideshare companies Uber and Lyft, which were accused of stealing earnings from drivers.

Taylor Swift immortalized a Flatiron apartment on the market for $3.7 million when she did a photo shoot in the home for her 2014 album "1989."

A Philadelphia man got caught for a second time carrying a gun to a security checkpoint at Philadelphia International Airport on Saturday, officials said.

Gun sales in Lewiston, Maine, area increased about 200% while Robert Card was in the wind after he killed 18 people and injured 13 more mass shootings, a store owner said

L.L. Bean said many sites it operates in Maine closed Thursday "out of an abundance of caution" in response to Wednesday night’s deadly mass shooting in Lewiston.

The man from Medford, Massachusetts, bought a "15,000,000 Money Maker" instant game and apparently didn't know he won on the misplaced ticket that his house cleaner found months later.