The Associated Press

A former hedge fund portfolio manager was arrested Tuesday on charges that he helped carry out the most lucrative insider trading scheme in U. S. history, enabling investment advisers and their hedge funds to make more than $276 million in illegal profits.

A man accused of fatally shooting a Nassau County police officer and another man has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

President Barack Obama dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East on Tuesday as the U.S. urgently seeks to contain the bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas.

A New York appeals panel has heard fresh arguments on an old subject - worship services in public schools - and seems hesitant to let them continue.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer will run for city comptroller next year, he announced Sunday in a move that will also reverberate through closely watched maneuvering for the mayor's race.

Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan is now offering walk-in, non-emergency services 24 a day.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is extending the gas rationing system in New York City through the Thanksgiving holiday.

Video released by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shows how flooding from Sandy damaged a key commuter rail line.

President Barack Obama is promising to stick with New Yorkers struggling after Superstorm Sandy, "until the rebuilding is complete."

The suspect in the infamous 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy from his New York City neighborhood has been formally charged with murder and kidnapping.

A Manhattan nanny has been indicted on murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two children three weeks ago.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered an investigation of how utility companies prepared for and reacted to Superstorm Sandy.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a $500 million emergency plan to pay for critical repairs to public schools and hospitals damaged by Superstorm Sandy.

An official says New York City's storm-damaged Bellevue and Coney Island hospitals won't be fully running until early next year.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is announcing a program to help speed up repairs to homes damaged by Sandy.

Residents of some of the Jersey shore communities that were hardest hit by Sandy are being escorted back onto the barrier islands to briefly retrieve belongings before leaving again.

A new gasoline rationing plan that lets motorists fill up every other day is going into effect in New York.

A man long considered the prime suspect in the disappearance of a New York City boy more than three decades ago was released from a Pennsylvania prison on Wednesday, then immediately arrested on a Megan's Law violation after providing an outdated address of where he would be residing, state police said.

U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm has won his bid for a second term in Congress representing New York.