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PHOTOS. Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, evicting dozens of protesters from what has become the headquarters of the corporate greed demonstrations.

The New Jersey Treasury Department released data Monday showing that higher taxes drive out the state's top income earners.

Professional basketball players rejected the NBA's latest offer and have begun the process of disbanding the union. The decision will likely jeopardize the rest of the 2011-2012 basketball season.

Local lawmakers have renewed their call to ban carriage horses after three serious accidents involving Central Park horses over the past two weeks.

Police are investigating an arson attack in Brooklyn as a possible hate crime after three cars were set ablaze on Ocean Parkway near Avenue I and "KKK" and swastikas were spray painted on a red van and park benches nearby.

Drivers headed to Brooklyn from the FDR drive will have to take alternate routes this weekend.

On the heels of New Jersey's widespread and prolonged power outage, the state's chief utility regulator is leaving his post.

A federal judge is appointing a former prosecutor as an independent monitor to oversee the efforts of the city's fire department to hire minorities.

Attorneys for the trustee who represents victims of Bernie Madoff head back to Manhattan federal court Thursday. 

New Jersey residents headed to the polls and approved a referendum on legalizing sports betting. All state legislative positions and hundreds of county and local offices were also up for election in the state.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on the Congressional deficit-fighting "supercommittes" to take bold action on balancing the budget — claiming business leaders won't invest or rehire until they are reassured Washington is handling the deficit.

One ballot question New Jersey residents will get to weigh in on during Tuesday's election will whether to legalize sports betting.

Some 62,000 homes and businesses in Connecticut are still without electricity more than a week after the surprise October snowstorm knocked out power.

A third person died this weekend after a helicopter plunged into the East River last month following takeoff.

Tuesday is election day — and in Hoboken, N.J., there's a referendum on the ballot regarding a new rent control ordinance that has yet to go into effect.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the recent violence that erupted in Oakland stemming from anti-Wall Street protests won't be repeated in New York.

New York City is one step closer to restricting on-street parking — in at least some neighborhoods — to residents.

Lawyers have informed a Manhattan judge that they've reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit blaming the owners of the New York Mets for losing more than $16 million in 401(k) assets by investing with Bernard Madoff.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he feels badly for his 2009 political opponent, then-Governor Jon Corzine, and the investors of MF Global, the Corzine-led securities firm that filed for bankruptcy protection Monday.

In the fifth day of New Jersey's prolonged power outage, postal workers at the Brookside Post office in Morris County continue to improvise.