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Despite a bad economy, the city is set to have the fewest number of homicides in a 12-month period since 1962.

Blinding snow stranded more than a 100 motorists in Western New York on Friday while bad weather again paralyzed the Midwest and heavy rains caused havoc in Southern California ...

A shootout Thursday between a police officer and a street peddler in Times Square -- crowded with shoppers and tourists -- left the suspect dead, police said.

The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday that left him and another passenger in an upstate New York hospital.

New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo backed the e-STOP law under which sex offenders' social networking accounts were terminated. Facebook and MySpace has terminated the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in the state of New York after they submitted their account information to the state as required by 2008’s Electronic Security and ...

The mother of a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who was missing in New York City for 11 days says her son spent the entire time in the subway system.

At least one -- and possibly all five -- of the detainees with alleged ties to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, will plead not guilty in a "justification defense," arguing the attacks were responses to American foreign policy, according to a lawyer who met with one of the defendants.

Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road....

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, encouraged by many Republicans to run for governor in 2010, is instead leaning toward a run for U.S. Senate, according to two party advisers....

New York's top court on Thursday rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to some government benefits provided to same-sex ...