Following the 9/11 attacks, trading reopened on Sept. 17, 2001. But the markets were the last thing on the minds of those who worked in the Financial District.

Fifty years after the Attica prison uprising in New York, the families of slain and injured prison guards say they're still waiting for an apology from the state.

The Supreme Court is declining to take up the case of the former New York Assembly Speaker, who is serving a 6 1/2-year prison sentence after being convicted in a corrupt...