Relatives of passengers and crew killed Sept. 11 aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 met Thursday to listen to cockpit audio tapes from the final minutes of the doomed jetliner.
Forty-two of the city's low-performing middle and elementary schools are to be turned over to for-profit companies and universities as part of the nation's largest school privatization plan.
Hershey Foods Corp. on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings of $87 million, or 63 cents a share, an increase of 10.5 percent over the same period last year.
New claims for unemployment insurance inched up last week, suggesting the some people are having trouble holding onto their jobs even as the economy recovers from recession.
Germany has for the first time raised the possibility that a truck bombing at a Tunisian synagogue that killed 16 people was an al-Qaida terrorist attack.