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A Long Island Rail Road retiree has pleaded guilty for his role in a massive disability scam.

The New York Times Company has named BBC head Mark Thompson as its president and CEO. The choice — an Englishman with no newspaper experience and little advertising background — seems to indicate the company may be focused on a digital future.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. What should the rising Republican star say? We asked you to compose @Gov...

A former New York police captain who's now a state Senator is promoting a new app that will allow New Yorkers to report suspected crimes.

A man on a jet ski was able to breach security at Kennedy Airport over the weekend when he became stranded in a New York bay and walked undetected through two runways and into a terminal.

The police shot and killed a man in Midtown Manhattan just blocks from Times Square on Saturday.

Legendary political boss Ray Harding passed away this week. Harding was the head of the Liberal party and a close ally of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose career ended in disgrace in 2009.

A new film by director Spike Lee has its roots in Brooklyn. Lee discusses his latest collaboration, films in general and, of course, basketball with friend, actor and guest host John ...

NYPD detectives and evidence technicians are once again on scene at the basement of a Soho building at West Broadway and Prince Street where Etan Patz was allegedly killed in 1979.

The U. S. Justice Department says it will not bring criminal charges against Goldman Sachs or its employees for selling investors complicated packages of mortgage-backed securitie...

Police are going in and out of the basement in Soho at West Broadway and Prince Street where Etan Patz was allegedly killed in 1979 as part of an investigation related to the case.

It's the hottest year on record for New York City and the Northeast region.

The only person to admit to a crime in either of two deadly 2008 construction crane collapses was spared jail Tuesday, under a plea deal two slain men's relatives scorned as an injustice.

New York-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer will pay the federal government $60 million to settle allegations that employees bribed doctors and officials overseas to win business.

Four men have been convicted of stealing nearly $6 million from Columbia University by tampering with its bill-payment system.

A prestigious New York City prep school has announced steps that it's taking to address reports of past sexual abuse at the institution.

NASA is marveling over the Mars rover’s first photographs — grainy, black-and-white images of Martian gravel, a mountain at sunset and, most exciting of all, the spacecraft's white-knuckle plunge through the red planet's atmosphere.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg denied any suggestion that the recent drop in the number of stop-and-frisks conducted by police signaled an overall change in policy.

The NYPD is increasing its presence around Sikh temples across the city "as a precaution" as authorities seek a motive for the Wisconsin shooting that left seven people dead, including the suspect, and three others critically wounded in what police called an act of domestic terrorism.

The NYPD is increasing its presence around Sikh temples across the city "as a precaution" as authorities seek a motive for the Wisconsin shooting that left seven people dead, inclu...