No end in sight for Queens, NY, blackout

NEW YORK - A blackout in the borough of Queens entered its sixth day Saturday in the hottest week of the summer with the mayor saying chances were small that the problem could be repaired by the end of the weekend. Some 15,000 to 20,000 customers — which could be one person or an entire apartment building — still had no electricity Saturday. Severe thunderstorms Friday hindered efforts to repair the series of unexplained electrical failures, and knocked out some repaired circuits, Mayor ...