New York | featured news

A 10-year-old boy escaped through the window of a minivan and swam to shore to get help just as his mother drove the van into New York's Hudson River, killing herself and three other children, police said Wednesday....

The sudden departure of Cathleen P. Black was nearly as surprising as her appointment last fall. Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott will replace her.

Seven New Yorkers claimed a $319 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery Thursday.

In New York City, bedbugs are nothing to worry about. That is, unless you visit department stores, movie theaters, hospitals, Lincoln Center, the Wall Street Journal offices or any of the numerous apartments housing the bloodsucking creatures.

A venomous Egyptian cobra went missing from New York's Bronx Zoo, prompting the closure of the zoo's reptile house until further notice.

One lucky winner in upstate New York chose the right numbers in Friday night's Mega Millions lottery, which has a jackpot of $312 million, the New York Lottery said Saturday.

Spring can't seem to upstage winter in the Northeast and parts of the nation's midsection, as a far-reaching storm on Wednesday brought up to a foot of snow to areas from the Dakotas to upstate New York....

A New York City woman who died fighting off muggers likely put up a struggle to keep her cell phone -- because it had romantic texts from her husband on it, the heartbroken spouse said yesterday.

A tour bus flipped onto its side and skidded into a sign post in New York on Saturday, killing 13 people and critically injuring six others, ...

A fierce storm is raking northern New England and upstate New York with heavy rain, coating other areas in ice and dumping as much on 30 inches of snow on the winter-weary region.