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Marc S. Dreier, a prominent New York lawyer, was sentenced on Monday in an elaborate scheme in which investors lost more than $400 million.

A New York City teenager says she was text messaging while walking down the street -- and the next second she was down a manhole.

Senate Republicans received a temporary restraining order to prevent the lieutenant governor nominee from taking office, but the move was disputed by Democrats.

Money doesn't grow on trees, but a tree-care supervisor in New York City's Central Park found an old wallet inside a dead one.

Fireworks lit the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air on an Independence Day.

Police say a New York man running to the aid of another motorist fell to his death from a bridge, apparently because he didn't know there was a large gap between lanes.

Police said Saturday they found 10 pounds of marijuana and $100,000 in cash in the basement of the Special Moments Daycare.

Vineet Nayar is reported to have called Americans graduates "unemployable"; the CEO of IT services vendor HCL Technologies was speaking recently in New York.

Nick Hornby, the best-selling English writer, was in New York Wednesday to promote his latest novel, Juliet, Naked, to be published ...

Two more New York City residents, a 41-year-old from Queens and a 34-year-old from Brooklyn, have died .