The Associated Press

The New York City mayor's office says city agencies have found ways to cut next year's budget deficit by $1.5 billion — but that still leaves a $2 billion gap.

A federal appeals court tossed out the conviction of a former Republican leader of the New York Senate on Wednesday but gave prosecutors what they wanted by allowing him to be retried.

A man with a gun was shot by police Tuesday inside the business school at the University of California, Berkeley, after hundreds of students and anti-Wall Street activists descended on the campus for a day of protests.

Personnel from 28 local volunteer fire departments are working to put out fires in a Fire Island community more than 14 hours after the blazes were first reported.

The former Penn State assistant football coach at the heart of a massive sex scandal said he showered with young boys and hugged them but called the allegedly criminal contact "horseplay."

A mistrial has been declared at the trial of a man who admitted hitting a woman during a Manhattan parking dispute that caused her to fall, hit her head and put her in a coma for about a week.

Peaceful marchers sent a clear message Sunday to vandals who torched cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn where Woody Allen was raised: Don't repeat the kind of attacks that once led to the Holocaust.

A New York assemblyman has been acquitted of charges he did political favors for a hospital executive in exchange for a no-show job.

A suspected al-Qaida member in custody in Germany has been indicted in New York.

There were systemic problems at a Nassau County crime lab that went largely undetected, were ignore, or were not properly addressed, according to a report released Thursday by the state inspector general.

Hoping to avoid a long, costly legal battle over whether New Jerseyans should be able to bet on sports, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. said he will introduce a bill Monday giving the state an immediate exemption from a federal ban on sports betting.

Lawyers for a man accused of scheming to blow up New York City synagogues are asking a judge to throw out what they call an overblown case, according to papers filed in court Wednesday.

A veteran City Council member funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for charity to benefit himself, his girlfriend and family, prosecutors charged Wednesday.

A judge has cited the "huge and brazen" nature of the crime as he imposed a $92 million civil penalty on a hedge fund boss snared in the biggest insider trading case ever.

Speaking in a halting voice, a Chicago-area woman accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of making an unwanted sexual advance against her more than a decade ago, saying she wanted to provide "a face and a voice" to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous.

Senator Charles Schumer called Monday for Congress to renew the federal mass transit break that saves many New York commuters hundreds of dollars a year.

Lawyers for the New York Police Department say the department should fire a police officer who dropped his cover and touched off the fatal shooting of an unarmed man after his bachelor party.

Securities firm MF Global Holdings Ltd. is seeking bankruptcy protection one week after reporting its biggest ever quarterly loss and having its credit downgraded to junk status.

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A man charged in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States has pleaded not guilty in court in New York City.