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The outcome of the special election on Long Island to replace disgraced former Republican leader Dean Skelos could determine control of the state senate.

Peter Liang was sentenced to five years' probation and 800 hours of community service in the 2014 shooting of Akai Gurley.

The bipartisan deal brings to an end the long-running standoff over the ideological makeup of the state's highest court.

A series of fireworks were set off early Sunday against local orders, triggering a massive fire that injured at least 200. Most were killed in the collapse of a building that stored the fireworks.

Despite controversy, Princeton's trustees have voted to keep the former president's name.

In their quest for a sixth title, the Tar Heels handily defeated the Orange, 83-66. North Carolina moves on to face Villanova, playing for their second championship, on Monday night.

This was the biggest Final Four semifinal win ever, eclipsing the 34-point wins by Cincinnati over Oregon State in 1962 and Michigan State over Penn in 1979.

Barbieri composed the Grammy-winning instrumental music for the Marlon Brando film "Last Tango in Paris." Last year, he received a Latin Grammy lifetime achievement award.

The deal is part of a broader state budget proposal that also contains $1 billion in tax cuts that lawmakers hoped to pass late Thursday before a Friday deadline.

The fire has burned hundreds of thousands of acres of prairie and ranch land in Oklahoma and Kansas. An Easter snowfall has provided some help to firefighters.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson is recommending no jail time for Peter Liang in the shooting death of Akai Gurley in November 2014.

The president pledged to "do whatever is necessary" to help Belgian authorities seek justice for the people killed in the attacks.

Candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gained crucial victories on Tuesday with both candidates winning Florida and John Kasich takes his home-state of Ohio. 

Raymond Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email and selector of the "@" symbol, has died.

Raytheon Co., his employer, on Sunday confirmed his death; the details were not immediately available.

Email existed in a limited capacity before Tomlinson in that electronic messages could be shared amid multiple people within a ...

Mitt Romney says Donald Trump lacks the temperament and the integrity to be president – and that the GOP should pick one of the other three candidates.

He says, the only serious policy proposals that deal with the broad range of national challenges we confront today, come from Ted Cruz, ...

With a Hail Mary move, Denny Hamlin ended Joe Gibbs' 23-year drought at the Daytona 500.

Gibbs made it clear that he had no use for the victories his drivers collected in the exhibition races leading into Sunday's season-opener. The three-time Super Bowl winning coach was focused only on the ...

Donald Trump is projected to win the Republican race in South Carolina, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio are in a close race for second.

Harper Lee, the elusive author whose “To Kill a Mockingbird” became an enduring best-seller and classic film with its child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, has died. She was 89.

HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis confirmed the author’s death to The Associated Press on Friday.

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While bedbugs in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn may all appear to be the same, scientists say there's genetic diversity.

While both parties caucused on the same night in Iowa, they did so with different rules.