The Associated Press

A JetBlue aircraft bound for West Palm Beach, Fla., made an emergency landing at a suburban New York airport shortly after hitting birds upon takeoff.

Lawmakers on eastern Long Island have approved a plan to trim the payroll by 315 jobs by July 1.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a faulty valve caused a Staten Island ferry accident that injured several people and caused minor damage.

NYPD officers wounded a suspect outside a Washington Heights apartment after he fatally shot a 13-year-old girl and critically injured her mother, officials say.

The complexity of the Roger Clemens perjury retrial showed itself in many ways Monday - before a jury that knows little about baseball.

A New Yorker who became a sworn member of al-Qaida has begun testifying at a terrorism trial in Brooklyn.

As he prepares to sign a repeal of Connecticut's death penalty into law, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy says that even if he doesn't have the support of all voters, he is sticking to his own convictions, formed by his experiences as a New York City prosecutor who helped lock up four people in homicide cases.

A spring nor'easter along the East Coast on Sunday is expected to bring rain and heavy winds and even snow in some places as it strengthens into early Monday, a punctuation to a relatively dry stretch of weather for the Northeast.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is no longer the top Democrat in New York politics. He faces the ambitious Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is closely allied with the state Senate's Republican majority. And Silver has mustered - with rare difficulty - votes that infuriated his base support among public employee unions.

George Zimmerman is getting out of jail. Now his defense team has to worry about keeping the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of gunning down Trayvon Martin safe on the outside.

A New York City fire lieutenant who died fighting a Brooklyn blaze is being laid to rest on Long Island.

Police say a security guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally shot himself in the leg in the basement of the building.

Telling Trayvon Martin's parents and a national TV audience "I am sorry for the loss of your son," neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman took the witness stand in an extraordinary move Friday during his bail hearing, making his first public comments since fatally shooting the unarmed teenager.

Police say a stray bullet wounded the wife of a Sudanese diplomat while she was walking with her two young children.

A jetliner bound from Paris to New York with over 200 people aboard landed safely after blowing one of its tires upon takeoff.

Prosecutors say a man with a cache of weapons who fired at seven officers has been charged with attempted murder.

Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock `n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the year-end countdown from Times Square on "New Year's Rockin' Eve," has died. He was 82.

The admitted mastermind of a foiled terror plot to attack New York City subways testified Wednesday that al-Qaida trainers taught him a "very simple" formula for making explosives needed for suicide bombs.

Rapper G. Dep stunned police by suddenly confessing to a nearly 20-year-old shooting, then went to trial arguing that his admission might have been mismatched to a murder.

New Jersey has issued its first permit for a nonprofit group to grow medical marijuana legally.