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State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has selected the Robert J. Duffy, the 55-year-old mayor of Rochester and former police of chief of the city, to be his running mate in the governor's race. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who launched his ...

Break out the parkas! The 2014 Super Bowl will be held in New Jersey and it won’t be indoors.  NFL owners have voted to put the championship game in the new $1.6 billion Meadowlands stadium that’s about to become home to the New York Jets and Giants. It does not have a roof and it will be February.

The accusation by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder should increase pressure on the Pakistan military to attack the Taliban in the lawless region of North Waziristan.

Police have arrested former National Football League star Lawrence Taylor in a rape investigation in New York, authorities said Thursday.

A judge ruled late Wednesday that the M.T.A. did not follow proper procedure in the layoffs of 475 station agents, and she ordered a hearing for Thursday morning.

A member of the Al Qaeda-allied Pakistani militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad is being held by authorities in Pakistan. That man spent time with Faisal Shahzad, the person charged in the failed bomb plot, although sources say that does not mean Jaish-e-Muhammad engineered the plot.

A crude bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks began to detonate but did not explode on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of tourists and theatergoers.

Gov. David A. Paterson will ask the State Legislature to let him begin furloughing as many as 100,000 state workers one day a week until the stalled 2010 state budget is in place.

In New York, a man who intervened when a woman was being attacked is stabbed and lies dying as people stroll by, police say.

Three months of work went into repairing “The Actor” after a woman accidentally fell into the canvas, causing a six-inch tear.