Blackstone Group LP will conclude fundraising for its latest buyout fund in January, raising just over $16 billion, three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in a 4-year process challenged by the global financial crisis.
Donald Trump has put together his biggest cast of characters for the lineup of the next Celebrity Apprentice, including mob boss daughter Victoria Gotti and American Idol alum Clay Aiken.
Olympic skater Johnny Weir is officially off the market. The figure skating champion married his boyfriend, Georgetown Law graduate Victor Voronov on Dec. 30.
Ilya Kovalchuk scored on a first-period penalty shot and assisted on David Clarkson's goal minutes later as the New Jersey Devils defeated the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1 in an Eastern Conference matchup on Saturday.
Negotiations between MSG Network and Time Warner Cable didn't yield a last minute result and as the clock struck midnight on New Year's eve a blackout began for MSG and MSG Plus channels on Time Warner Cable in New York City.
With the proliferation of cheap and fast video streaming, passionate fans, and eager corporate sponsors, electronic sports may be poised to become a standard ingredient in the global entertainment mix -- although the budding industry still faces a few challenges.
If you are celebrating New Year's Eve in New York City but do not feel like venturing to Times Square, there are other options around the island as well - ones that include fireworks.
The 2012 presidential campaign has been one of the most volatile in recent memory, and it isn't even 2012 yet. Take a look back at the highlights and lowlights of the battle for the Republican nomination so far.
U.S. White House hopeful Mitt Romney brought in help from New Jersey on Friday to bolster his prospects for a win in Iowa next week that would put him in the lead in the Republican presidential race.
Shares of Verizon Communications, majority owner of Verizon Wireless, rose after the company squelched a day-old plan to charge customers a $2 “convenience fee” to pay their bills.
Stocks were nearly unchanged on Friday, the last trading day of a turbulent year, but the S&P 500 looked set to end with a slight gain.
Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, most notable for going on tour with the Rat Pack, died Wednesday from breast cancer and blood clots at Villages Hospital in central Florida at the age of 79, according to reports. Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed the death.
In a new study, published in the journal Cancer, the use of cholesterol-reducing drugs called statins has been linked with a lower risk of dying from prostate cancer.
Long before the latest global breast implant scare, American health officials were toying with the idea of building a registry that would track patients with implants.
There is a lot on the line when the New York Giants (8-7) host the Dallas Cowboys (8-7) at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday night.
In a new study of middle-aged New Jersey men, taking cholesterol-lowering drugs was linked to a lower chance of dying from prostate cancer.
When we look back on how college athletics fared in 2011, we will remember it much more for the disgraces - Jerry Sandusky and Bernie Fine on the top of that list - than some of the good stories - UConn's Kemba Walker and BYU's Jimmer Fredette.
Gold prices fell on Thursday to their lowest level in nearly six months as tight liquidity in the euro zone forced investors to sell the metal, but strong U.S. economic data prompted a stock rally on Wall Street.
Lorene Scafaria and Ashton Kutcher have been photographed traveling Italy. Is she his new girlfriend?
U.S. stocks fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday after a hefty year-end rally and the S&P 500 erased gains for the year on renewed concerns about the euro zone's financial health.
U.S. stocks fell more than 1 percent on Wednesday after a hefty year-end rally and the S&P 500 erased gains for the year on renewed concerns about the euro zone's financial health.
Stocks fell about 1 percent on Wednesday on concerns about the economy in early 2012 while the euro hit a fresh 11-month low against the dollar before a key auction of long-dated Italian debt on Thursday.
