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Former state Senator Vincent Leibell, a longtime New York legislator, was sentenced to nearly two years in prison after he admitted to evading taxes and trying to influence a grand jury. 

Prosecutors are calling rebuttal witnesses to try to discredit claims made by an NYPD officer charged with raping a woman he was summoned to help.

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it had elected real estate developer Daniel Brodsky to be the new chairman of the Met's 40-member board.

The city will launch a new emergency alert system by the end of the year that sends messages to cell phones during disasters, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.

Humans remains found along a stretch of beach highway in Long Island are the work of at least two killers who used the area as a dumping ground, a Long Island District Attorney said Monday.

An NYPD officer told jurors Monday that he did not have sex with the woman who has accused him of raping her.

The up to $50 million bounty to bring Osama bin Laden to justice should go to first responders, survivors and families of victims of September 11 attacks, two New York City congressman said.

Long Island Rail Road passengers are experiencing up to 20 minute delays on their morning commute after an empty Amtrak train derailed a day earlier in New York's East River tunnel.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented a final budget "full of difficult decisions" on Friday that included the loss of more than 6,000 teachers.

Laurents died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan due to complications from pneumonia. Watch videos of his work here.

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said he supports President Barack Obama's decision not to release grisly photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse.

President Barack Obama placed a wreath at the Ground Zero in solemn remembrance of victims of September 11 on Thursday after meeting with emergency workers during a visit to New Yor...

After one week of deliberations in the largest insider trading case related to hedge funds in history, jurors will restart.

President Barack Obama will attend a wreath-laying ceremony at Ground Zero today and meet with families of September 11 victims and first responders during his visit.

The NYPD's heightened security following the death of Osama bin Laden will remain in place at least through President Barack Obama's visit to the World Trade Center site on Thursday. 

Osama bin Laden was hiding out in a secret compound in a residential neighborhood in a medium-sized city 35 miles north of Islamabad when two dozen Navy SEALs infiltrated the hideaway and shot him dead.

 

The jury has entered its sixth day of deliberations while the hedge fund trader on trial, Raj Rajaratnam, goes into emergency surgery for a bacterial infection in his foot.

PHOTOS. "GOT HIM" - "ROT IN HELL" - "DEAD" - Take a look at newspaper front pages from around the region covered Osama bin Laden's death.

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, was killed by U.S. military action during a firefight in Pakistan nearly a decade after the terror attacks and was l...

After five days of deliberations, a jury has not come to a verdict in the biggest insider trading trial dealing with hedge funds.