Playing in front of his father, a 55-year-old polio victim, Joba Chamberlain pitched two scoreless innings to help lift the Yankees.

Chamberlain’s Effort Brings His Father to Tears

Police are unsure why masked gunmen opened fire in downtown Newark on Friday afternoon. 

Newark Boy, 3, Hit in Head by Shots Fired Into Passing Car

The presidential candidate bristles when he is accused of shifting his views since his 2002 campaign for governor of Massachusetts.

Romney’s Tone on Gay Rights Is Seen as Shift

Military statistics show that U.S. forces have made some headway at protecting the Iraqi population, but there are questions over whether the gains can be sustained.

Hints of Progress, and Questions, in Iraq Data

Justine Henin, the top female tennis player in the world, defeated Venus Williams to advance to face Svetlana Kuznetsova in the finals of the United States Open.

Two Williamses Down, One Match to Go

Perhaps there will come a time when baseball shakes free of these vexing and occasionally damning performance-enhancement headlines. But not for now.

As Testing Continues, Cheating Endures

With Canada saturated, the doughnut chain Tim Hortons is looking to the U.S. for growth, despite past difficulties faced by other Canadian retailers.

Northern Overexposure

There are not enough resources to enforce a rule that was violated before a fatal fire at ground zero, officials said.

Fire Chiefs Say Inspection Rule Defies Reality

Brooklyn’s Foreclosure Prevention Project has been so inundated with calls from those in trouble with mortgage bills that it had to stop taking them. 

Fighting an Outbreak of Mortgages Too Good to Be True

The Federal Reserve could feel more pressure from Democrats and Republicans to cut interest rates.

Bad News Puts Political Glare Onto Economy

An undercover transit officer was shot three times during a shootout on a busy subway platform that also left the gunman dead, the police said.

Gunman Killed and Officer Wounded in Bronx Shootout

Investors sought safety in government debt and gold as the latest job report raised fears that corporate profits will weaken.

Stocks Tumble as Job Report Leads Investors to Shift to Bonds

A Labor Department report showed that the economy lost 4,000 jobs in August, the first drop in four years, suggesting that turmoil in the financial markets could be spreading.

Unexpected Loss of Jobs Raises Risk of Recession

A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for a copycat version of the popular heartburn drug Protonix.

Wyeth Loses Bout in Fight on a Generic

All 52 of the schools in the troubled district in Paterson, N.J., were closed on Friday on short notice for safety reasons, locking out 28,000 students and setting off a political brawl.

Uproar Is Political and Parental in Paterson School Shutdown

Prairie View A&M University’s band offers a vernacular musical form that is not aiming at commercial success.

Where the Game Is Just a Warm-Up for the Band

The state of Louisiana is on the skirmish lines of a growing fight waged by animal-rights groups, lawmakers and courts over the treatment of animals in relation to sports.

Animal Advocates Rattling Sports’ Cages

A “non-geek” recounts the trials and tribulations of owning a Treo smartphone made by Palm.

The Case of the Subpar Smartphone

Countrywide, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, said Friday that it would lay off up to 20 percent of its workforce over the next three months.

Countrywide Plans to Cut Staff Deeply

State officials said the company should be allowed to raise the prices it charges for delivering electricity by what critics believe would be the biggest amount ever.

Con Edison Is Supported on Bid to Raise Rates

The irreverent reporter Michael Barkann has made his postmatch interviews at the United States Open entertaining enough to become YouTube clips.

Interviewer Sparks a Memorable Moment

An article by Bloomberg News in Business Day on Thursday, about earnings projections for Kraft Foods and Tyson Foods, incorrectly attributed a statement that Kraft’s profit margin would narrow this year. The statement was made by Alexia Howard, an analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Company in New York, not by Kraft.

Correction: For the Record

Gov. Eliot Spitzer plans to step up action against companies that wrongly classify employees as independent contractors to skirt wage and tax laws.

State Takes Aim at Evaders of Wage and Tax Laws

An article in Business Day on Tuesday about Microsoft’s efforts to win approval for its Office Open XML format as an international standard misidentified the developer of the rival OpenDocument Format. It was developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, known as Oasis, not by a consortium led by I.B.M. (I.B.M. is a sponsor of Oasis, a global organization.) The article also referred imprecisely to the nature of the Office Open XML format. It is an open format, meaning that it can be used by any program that supports it; it is not open source, which means that the source code is publicly available for modification.

Knight Vinke Asset Management, which has a track record of initiating change at large companies, has found its latest target in Europe’s biggest bank.

Investment Firm Aims to Shake Up HSBC

Vincent Noel Serventy AM was an Australian author, ornithologist and conservationist.

September 8, 2007

Headlines from September 8, 2007

Chamberlain’s Effort Brings His Father to Tears

Newark Boy, 3, Hit in Head by Shots Fired Into Passing Car

Romney’s Tone on Gay Rights Is Seen as Shift

Hints of Progress, and Questions, in Iraq Data

Two Williamses Down, One Match to Go

Billboard 200

High School Musical 2

Eardrum

Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus

Hairspray

NOW 25

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for September 8, 2007