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A 23-year-old contestant from Brooklyn, N.Y., won the title of Miss America in Las Vegas tonight. Mallory Hagan won the beauty pageant after tap dancing to James Brown’s “Get Up Off of That Thing” and answering a question about whether armed guards belong in grade schools by saying we should not fight violence with violence.

With the nation in the grip of a severe influenza outbreak that has seen deaths reach epidemic levels, New York State declared a public health emergency on Saturday, making access to vaccines more easily available.

The unusual review has so far found 26 cases in which a lab technician failed to detect biological evidence when some actually existed, according to the city’s medical examiner’s office.

A 24-year-old woman was arrested and charged in connection with the Christmas Eve ambush slaying of two volunteer firefighters responding to a house fire in upstate New York.

A newspaper's publication of the names and addresses of handgun permit holders in two New York counties has sparked online discussions -- and a healthy dose of outrage.

Police in Webster, N.Y., say the man who shot four firefighters before killing himself on Monday left a typewritten note saying he wanted to burn down the neighborhood.

Gunshots rang out as firefighters responded to a blaze at a house in upstate New York on Monday, officials said.

A woman raped in a Long Island, N.Y., home used her tongue to dial 911 while her hands were bound with duct tape, officials say.

There's new evidence that some of the impact of Superstorm Sandy could have been prevented. A bi-partisan report says that for more than three decades New York politicians were repeatedly warned to prepare for a coming superstorm like Hurricane Sandy but those warnings were ignored.

When a news photographer witnesses a tragedy in the making, is his obligation to intervene or to document it? That question has cropped up anew following the New York Post's publication, on its front page, of a photo taken moments after a man was pushed onto subway tracks, and moments before he was hit and killed by an oncoming train.