The Associated Press

Democratic lawmakers and Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy have reached an agreement on a revised state budget for the new fiscal year that begins on July 1.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed better protections for about a million New Yorkers with disabilities and special needs under state-funded care through a new agency with authority to monitor the system and investigate and prosecute abuse claims.

A former police officer who grabbed a schoolteacher off the street and sexually attacked her was sentenced Monday to at least 75 years in prison after being convicted of high-level sex charges, though a jury couldn't decide whether he was guilty of rape.

Vogue magazine, perhaps the world's top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too young and too thin is no longer in.

Facebook, the company that turned the social Web into a cultural and business phenomenon, is worth as much as $95 billion, according to the price range for its upcoming initial public offering of stock.

A former investment manager known as Wall Street's "bad boy" has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The former New York Senate majority leader faces new federal fraud charges after his earlier convictions were overturned last year.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg is lobbying for Rutgers University to maintain its presence in Camden.

Mick Jagger will test his comic chops later this month as host of the "Saturday Night Live" season finale.

A man accused of shoving a city police officer off a stoop to his death during a domestic violence arrest last year was convicted Wednesday of manslaughter.

New York's Transportation Department says it's addressing some safety concerns on a stretch of highway where an accident killed seven people.

A New Jersey mom is accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a stand-up tanning booth, and authorities say the girl suffered burns.

On a swift, secretive trip to the war zone, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday night that after years of sacrifice the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. "We can see the light of a new day on the horizon," he said on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death and in the midst of his own re-election campaign.

Police in New York City say three letters aimed at scaring mailroom employees at Citicorp and News Corp. were filled with a white powder believed to be cornstarch.

A former Rutgers University student who was convicted of hate crimes for using a webcam to see a snippet of his roommate kissing another man is asking a judge to overturn the jury's verdict.

Governor Chris Christie says having a sexy television star seated beside him made it easier to absorb the fat jokes Jimmy Kimmel made at his expense during the White House Correspondents' Club dinner.

Authorities say an out-of-control van plunged off a roadway near the Bronx Zoo in New York City, killing seven people, including three children.

The sister of a man accused in an alleged plot in 2009 to attack New York's subways with suicide bombs testified in his terror trial Wednesday as both sides wrapped up their arguments in the trial of the man accused of plotting the attacks in 2009.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has signed legislation into law that abolishes Connecticut's death penalty for future crimes. The Democrat signed the bill on Wednesday afternoon, behind closed ...

New Jersey's top state law enforcement officials discussed high-speed police escorts during a meeting Wednesday.