Meghan Barr

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Acting Director Tom Evans of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center speaks during a briefing in Honolulu on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Weather forecasters are predicting four to seven tropical cyclones in the central Pacific Ocean during this year's hurricane season. (AP Photo/Oskar Garcia)

Energy and Environment

US forecasters to predict slow hurricane season

Meghan Barr · May 22, 2014 1:07 pm

NYC mayor wants to develop public housing land

Meghan Barr · May 11, 2014 1:18 pm

How much credit should the Occupy movement get?

Meghan Barr · April 30, 2014 5:00 pm

FILE- In this April 11, 2013, file photo, a home in the process of being raised is seen in the Broad Channel section of Queens, New York. About 24,000 families have signed up for New York City's Build-It-Back program, which will help pay for repairs, elevate their homes and reimburse them for repairs that have already completed on the damage left behind by Superstorm Sandy. On Thursday, April 17, 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced changes to the program. Criticizing the program as "overly complex," de Blasio said that the city will reform the program by providing financial relief to homeowners and engaging local communities in the rebuilding process. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NYC to change maligned Sandy rebuilding program

Meghan Barr · April 17, 2014 8:21 pm

Journalist Glenn Greenwald won a Pultzer Prize for his work at The Guardian for revealing the massive U.S. government surveillance effort. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

National Security

Washington Post, Guardian win Pulitzers for NSA revelations

Meghan Barr · April 14, 2014 4:00 am

‘Which (blank) are you?’ Online quizzes go viral

Meghan Barr · February 24, 2014 8:47 pm

In this Jan. 29, 2008 file photo, Mike San Miguel, of La Verne, Calif., checks out the Super Bowl merchandise in the Arizona Highways retail store at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport before catching a flight. Broadway producers, merchants and restaurateurs may not see the profits they hope will come with the Super Bowl visiting New York as fans will more likely spend their money on NFL branded merchandise and events. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

A Super Bowl economic boom for NYC? No so much…

Meghan Barr · January 27, 2014 5:25 pm

A police officer evacuates a shoeless man holding a child as members of law enforcement conduct a search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose, authorities said Friday as thousands of officers swarmed the streets in a manhunt that all but paralyzed the Boston area. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Massachusetts police: Bombing suspect may not have car

Katie Zezima, Meghan Barr, Eileen Sullivan · April 19, 2013 4:00 am

In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 photo, Michael Sciaraffo, as Santa Claus, arrives at the home of the Creamer family to deliver toys in the Belle Harbor neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. Using Facebook, Sciaraffo started a charitable enterprise to collect and personally deliver toys to children affected by superstorm Sandy, dressed as Santa Claus. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

“Sandy Claus” delivers toys to storm-stricken kids

Meghan Barr · December 21, 2012 7:51 am

FILE--In this photo from Saturday, March 12, 2011, emergency personnel investigate the scene of a bus crash on Interstate-95 in the Bronx borough of New York. A verdict has been reached in a manslaughter case against the bus driver Ophadell Williams, charged in the crash that killed 15 passengers. Williams has pleaded not guilty. He says a tractor-trailer cut him off and he lost control. The bus carrying gamblers coming from a Connecticut casino was sheared open like a sardine can when it struck a pole. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

Bus driver not guilty of manslaughter in NY crash

Meghan Barr · December 8, 2012 12:31 am

Sandy victims prepare for subdued Thanksgiving

Meghan Barr · November 21, 2012 5:00 am

A woman holds a box of food she picked up at an American Red Cross station in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012 in New York. The region is still cleaning up a week after Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Where will housing be found for Sandy’s victims?

Meghan Barr, Jennifer Peltz · November 5, 2012 5:00 am