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A busy terminal in New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was reopened on Monday after a partial evacuation prompted by an unattended bag was found, according to a spokesman for American Airlines.

New York state ushered in gay marriage at the stroke of midnight Sunday, with a Buffalo couple among the first to wed.

You may have visualized cramming someone's cellphone down his or her throat out of sheer frustration on occasion, but odds are that you've never acted on such a violent thought — unlike one New York City patent attorney.

The FBI today raided several homes in New York and California as part of an ongoing investigation into recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks allegedly launched by members of the Anonymous hacking group.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will not plead guilty to minor charges or cut a deal in the sexual assault case against him in New York, his lawyer said in remarks published Thursday.

Reports say a building exploded in rural upstate New York, injuring at least five people. The explosion in Salem, about 40 miles northeast of the state capital of Albany, occurred around noon Wednesday.

A young Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home from a day camp in one of the safest parts of the city was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had turned to for help after getting lost, police said Wednesday.

Pilot programs to reduce distracted driving show success in Syracuse, N.Y., and Hartford, Conn.

Even before New York joined five other states and the District of Columbia, the trend's impact was becoming more visible.

An investigation is under way into a roller coaster accident in upstate New York that killed a U.S. Army veteran who had been trying to rebuild his life after losing both legs in Iraq....