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The New York State Department of Health is planning to drop Soundview Health Network from its Medicaid program. The move will leave many of the Bronx patients it serves looking for alternatives.

Eleven people are reported to have have died from the heat this summer in New York City.

More raw sewage is flowing into the Hudson River, this time from a facility in Westchester County. It follows last month's sewage release from a fire-damaged treatment plant in West Harlem that led to days of beach closures. Officials in Ossining are working to repair the 18-inch sewer main that's releasing raw sewage into a creek near the Hudson River.

The sex education curriculum that the city is mandating in public schools this year will include teaching students about questions of sexual orientation.

On the fifth day of the Verizon Communications strike, only a specified number of workers were allowed to picket company sites after a State Supreme court judge in Manhattan Wednesday ruled in favor of an injunction filed by Verizon.

A lawyer for a former Rutgers student indicted on bias intimidation and other charges after allegedly using a webcam to spy on his roommate who later committed suicide, asked that the charges be dropped.

Police are investigating a shooting in Brooklyn that shattered the back window of a car driven by New York state Assemblyman William Boyland.

A who's who of New York politics filed into St. Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday to remember former New York Governor Hugh Carey, known for leading the state out of economic crisis in the 1970s.

The New York State Department of Health has ended Medicaid participation for the Bronx clinic founded and run by former state Senator Pedro Espada, Jr.

FDNY commissioner Salvatore Cassano defended the department's hiring practices against claims of discrimination on Tuesday when he testified for more than two hours in Federal Court in Brooklyn.  

A former New York City police officer acquitted of raping an East Village woman he and his partner were summoned to help was sentenced to two months in jail for misconduct on Wednesday.

Train traffic to and from New York's Penn Station began to clear up Wednesday morning as Amtrak finished repairs on a rail tunnel where a New Jersey Transit train derailed a day earlier.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 520 points Wednesday on a day that concern over the weakening economy continued to percolate on Wall Street and send stocks tumbling.

The safety of triathlon competitions has come under scrutiny following the deaths of two competitors during the Nautica New York City Triathlon last weekend.

An 18-year-old Queens man was charged early this morning in connection with a series of groping incidents, most of which occurred on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Governor Andrew Cuomo stopped short of ruling out toll increases but called the steep hikes proposed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey last Friday a "non-starter."

A new report from the environmental group Riverkeeper confirmed what many New Yorkers long suspected: sewage pollution can make the Hudson River unsafe for swimming.

The hotel housekeeper who accused former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has sued him in State Supreme Court in the Bronx for unspecified damages. 

President Barack Obama defended U.S. credit saying "no matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always be a AAA country." Take a look at what others are saying about the downgrade and its impact.

Thousands of striking workers from Verizon Communication Inc.'s landline division joined picket lines and rallies Monday at the company's offices from Massachusetts to Virginia, according to a union official.