The Associated Press

A Congressional panel has subpoenaed former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine to testify next week after he failed to respond to an informal request.

The commander of New Jersey's National Guard is resigning after being caught having a physical relationship with a woman who worked for him, state officials said.

An appeals court has denied the long-shot bid by a hedge fund founder to remain free pending the appeals of his conviction and 11-year prison sentence.

The money broker charged with unwittingly providing $7,000 to Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad has been sentenced to three years' probation.

City health officials said Thursday they are recommending that any person living with HIV be offered AIDS drugs as soon as they are diagnosed with the virus, an aggressive move that has been shown to prolong life and stem the spread of the disease.

A New York Police Department official says the undercover detective who touched off the 50-shot police shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day acted recklessly and should be removed from the force.

Obama administration officials promised Wednesday to make changes before the Christmas travel season aimed at preventing nightmare scenarios like the one in October when hundreds of passengers were trapped for hours on planes in Hartford, Conn., during a freak snowstorm.

A passenger accused of attacking a JetBlue flight attendant who tried to stop him from drinking has been charged with assault by New York City prosecutors.

A federal judge in New York has struck down a $285 million settlement that Citigroup reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission, citing a need for truth about the financial markets.

The money broker who unwittingly provided $7,000 to Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad said his life has been plunged into emotional and financial chaos, and he hopes he can avoid jail time for his family's sake.

Early signs point to bigger crowds at the nation's malls and stores as retailers like Target and Macy's opened their doors at midnight on the most anticipated shopping day of the year and a few others opened on Thanksgiving Day. Shoppers were mostly peaceful across the country, but a few violent incidents broke out as millions of shoppers rushed into stores and tensions flared.

The Occupy protests have cost local taxpayers at least $13 million in police overtime and other municipal services, according to a survey by The Associated Press.

A New Jersey man has been acquitted of killing five teenagers who went missing in 1978 in what was one of the state's longest-running cold cases.

Eight students were transferred from a broken-down school before it became engulfed in flames in midtown Manhattan, officials said.

The New Jersey man whose Sabrett hot dogs are part of the New York City experience has died.

A group of civic leaders has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to take over the process of redrawing the boundaries of New York's congressional districts.

Egyptian riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets stormed into Cairo's Tahrir Square Saturday to dismantle a protest tent camp, setting off clashes that injured at least 507 people and raising tensions days before the first elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster.

A driver of a U-Haul truck carrying beer kegs through a tailgating area before the Yale-Harvard game Saturday suddenly accelerated, fatally striking a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman and injuring two other women, police said.

Joe Paterno was diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer the same weekend Penn State's football team played its first game without the Hall of Fame coach in nearly a half century.