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Two children were found stabbed to death inside an Upper West Side apartment, and their nanny was found nearby with a self-inflicted wound, authorities said Thursday evening.

Come 2015, Nassau County will no longer have a professional sports team.

New Jersey's Supreme Court upheld a law Wednesday that critics say discriminates against infertile women — ruling that a woman uses a surrogate to give birth with someone else’s eggs cannot be considered the mother unless she adopts the child.

Much of the East Coast has a good chance of getting blasted by gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe even snow as early as Sunday by an unusual hybrid of hurricane and winter storm, forecasters said.

Former District Attorney Robert Morgenthau ripped the City Council’s proposal to create an NYPD monitor – one of a series of proposals aimed at increasing oversight over the department.

The off-duty officer who was shot by a suspect in a Bronx robbery had the bullet removed at a Bronx hospital on Thursday where he is surrounded by his family.

Greg Smith’s op-ed “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" hit a nerve and drew passionate responses from Wall Street titans — but he says the message he was sending isn’t that Wall Street i...

A federal judge in New Jersey is blocking a group of more than 100 newspapers from getting access to voters as they leave polling places on Election Day.

The New York Islanders are moving to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. 

A New Jersey woman who worked for the NBA as a senior account executive filed a $3 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the league.

A former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. board member once widely respected for his business smarts has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for insider trading.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said the state has moved to revoke the licenses of the New England Compounding Center and three pharmacists there. He also has ordered the state pharmacy board that oversees similar companies to conduct surprise inspections and take other steps to tighten oversight.

The New York City Housing Authority estimates that 56,000 households are living in apartments that have too many rooms for the size of their families – but longtime residents bristle at the thought of downsizing.

The Brooklyn District Attorney said he dropped the charges against a homeless man arrested after a beating from police officers because there was "no case" against him.

The Museum of Modern Art is presenting a special six-month exhibition of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," which sold for nearly $120 million at auction in May.

The Transportation Security Administration says it is removing full body scanners from New York's airports and moving them to less busy airports.

An NYPD officer pleaded guilty Monday to stealing guns from the lockers of fellow officers in his East Village precinct and selling them to pay for his addiction to painkillers.

A New York hedge fund manager who made billions from predicting the housing collapse has donated an unprecedented $100 million gift to Central Park Conservancy.

As the two presidential candidates meet to debate foreign policy issues on Monday, the hunt and killing for the world’s most wanted terrorist will likely be brought mentioned by President Barack Obama. In his latest book, author and journalist Mark Bowden discusses why the mission was a success.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is offering to match donations made by the end of the week to campaigns to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine, Minnesota and Washington.