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New Jersey voters approved nearly 80 percent of school district budgets in referendums throughout the state, according to a tally by the state school boards association.

The jury is now in its fourth day of deliberations in the biggest insider trading case involving hedge funds in U.S. history.

The National Weather Service warning for Rockland County and southeastern Orange County in New York has now expired. It was in effect until 12:15 p.m.

 

The newly appointed New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said he believes school options should include charter schools. He called for a tapering of the rhetoric around whether charter schools or regular public schools need to be expanded.

Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer Chris Hondros, who was killed in Libya earlier this month, is being remembered at a memorial service at a Brooklyn church Wednesday afternoon.

The State Education Department held a public hearing Tuesday night at a Bronx charter school that is on probation by the Board of Regents for fiscal mismanagement to hear from parents, teachers and administrators about whether the Kingsbridge Innovative Design Charter School is solvent enough to stay open.

The network news anchor told People magazine that she is "looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling" but said she has not decided what she's doing next.

A jury has asked to listen again to wiretaps played during the largest insider trading case involving hedge funds in the U.S.

The three children who died after their mother drove their car into the Hudson River were remembered during a private funeral service on Monday where tensions erupted.

Police scouring a stretch of Jones Beach in Long Island for human remains and evidence of a possible serial killer discovered two teeth Friday.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said "there seems to be a lot of evidence" that NYPD officers were allegedly fixing traffic tickets.

Actor Ryan Phillippe said his unpleasant encounters with paparazzi nearly soured him on taking a role in a film about photographers.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is turning up the heat on heavy oil pollutants as part of the city's clean-air plan, and said the city wants to phase out the use of polluting heavy oils to...

The former billionaire hedge fund boss at the center of the biggest insider trading trial in U.S. history is being railroaded, according to defense lawyers.

The funeral for the mother who drove her three children to their deaths when she packed them into the family van and plunged it into the icy waters of the Hudson River last week will be held Thursday, a day after what would have been her youngest child's first birthday.

In closing arguments at the trial of hedge fund trader Raj Rajaratnam, prosecutors reminded the jury of the 45 audio recordings they’d heard throughout the seven-week trial part of extensive wire tapping evidence used to expose what they called the one-time billionaire's "corporate spies."

A former student at Rutgers University was indicted Wednesday on bias intimidation and other charges after allegedly using a webcam to spy on a same-sex encounter involving his roommate, who committed suicide afterward.

The Tribeca Film Festival, which turns 10 this year, has become a staple of the festival circuit. This year, the festival, which includes 93 feature films and 60 short films, runs f...

Grete Waitz, nine-time winner of the New York City Marathon who transformed the sport of running, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 57.

The winners of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize were announced Monday — with the New York Times scooping up three awards, one for photography and two for business commentary and international reporting.