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The hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued the New York Post and five of its journalists for libel on Tuesday for reporting that she was a prostitute.

It seems Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser was more than just a maid.According to the New York Post, she was also a prostitute.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling a special election Sept. 13 to replace disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner in Congress.

A Lufthansa jumbo jet nearly collided with another plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Monday after an EgyptAir flight veered into its path just as the jet barreled down the runway.

One suspect was taken into custody Wednesday in connection with the shootings at a New York pharmacy where four people were killed over the weekend, NBC New York reported. News of the arrest came after Suffolk County police escorted a ...

Catholic Church officials are mounting a full-court press to convince lawmakers in Albany to vote against same-sex marriage legislation, which stands a vote or two from becoming law in New York State.

New York isn't North Korea, but it's the closest thing you'll find in the U.S. -- at least according to a new report from a libertarian think tank.A Mercatus Center study has pegged New York as the country's "least free" state, 49 slots behind "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire. Its authors gave the state particular abuse for its taxes, "by far the highest" in the country, according to their methodology.

Weiner says he's not quitting, and many of his constituents are still on his side, willing to ignore his personal failings. If anyone can relate to embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner, it's the naked man standing in a plaza facing the congressman's Queens office — the one surrounded by mysterious female figures.

A sheriff's deputy in New York died Tuesday after being shot at the end of a standoff, and his wife went into labor with their second child upon hearing the news, local media reported.

An accident involving a so-called "bounce castle" in Long Island, NY, over the weekend that sent 13 to the hospital illustrated the perils of the popular inflatable amusement rides.