
10 hours ago - By Jocelyn Noveck, AP National Writer
Even for a venue as grand as New York's Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards. Complete Story...
1 hour ago - By Associated Press
A state government official says a former student has surrendered to police after taking a school administrator hostage at an upstate New York high school.

13 hours ago - By Brian Mahoney, AP Basketball Writer
Carlos Boozer and Andrei Kirilenko each scored 23 points, and the Utah Jazz won in New York for the first time in more than five years by beating the Knicks 95-93 on Monday night.
18 hours ago - By Associated Press
Four New York City homeowners have filed a lawsuit charging they were denied access to a federal home-refinancing program.

20 hours ago - By Michael Gormley, Associated Press Writer
Gov. David Paterson on Monday urged lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, calling it "an issue that touches on the very core of our citizenship."
22 hours ago - By Associated Press
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have canceled February appearances in Los Angeles and New York because a promoter wrongly billed the events as debates.
23 hours ago - By Associated Press
Gov. David Paterson is setting up a showdown with New York's Senate over how to address a $3.2 billion deficit and allow New York to pay its December bills.
Nov 9 - By Associated Press
A New York lawyer was robbed inside his room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Puerto Rico by assailants who tied him up before dawn Monday and stole $800 in cash, police said.
Nov 9 - By Associated Press
Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.

Nov 8 - By Courtney Hazlett, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Susan Boyle’s publicity train is back on track. The Scottish singer is addressing her difficulties with sudden fame before she performs on “Dancing With The Stars” in Los Angeles later this week.

Nov 8 - By Tom Canavan, AP Sports Writer
Philip Rivers showed the New York Giants exactly what they traded away in 2004, and this one really hurt the team that wanted Eli Manning so much.
Nov 8 - By John Schoen
Unemployed workers and homebuyers caught a break thanks to a new law signed by President Barack Obama on Friday. The law offers tax credits for homebuyers, extending and expanding a popular program, and extends jobless benefits up to 20 weeks for unemployed workers who can’t find a job. Here’s how the plans will work.
Nov 8 - By Associated Press
In a Nov. 7 story about the racial issues in a New York community a year after the stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of one of the defendants charged in the immigrant's death. His correct name is Anthony Hartford, not Harfford.
Nov 7 - By Bradley Brooks, Associated Press Writer
TAM Airlines says one of its jets took off from New York's JFK airport but was forced to return 20 minutes into the flight because of a mechanical problem.

Nov 6 - By Tom Canavan, AP Sports Writer
Yann Danis made 23 saves and stopped four in-close attempts in the third period against his former Islanders teammates, helping the New Jersey Devils beat New York 2-1 on Friday night for their fourth straight win.
Nov 6 - By Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press Writer
A federal judge imposed an unusual election system on a suburban village Friday, nearly two years after finding that the existing system was unfair to Hispanics.
Nov 6 - By Associated Press
An upstate New York man has been sentenced to six months in jail for hiding his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashing her Social Security checks.

Nov 6 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
NEW YORK - Crowds roared, church bells rang and streams of paper rained down on Broadway as the New York Yankees celebrated their 27th championship Friday in a way only this city can, with a parade up the Canyon of Heroes.
Nov 6 - By Michael Virtanen, Associated Press Writer
A former Teamsters official testified that then New York state Sen. Joseph Bruno told him in 1994 that Wright Investors Service wanted to manage his local's pension fund and didn't disclose he was being paid by the company.
Nov 6 - By Associated Press
A former college staffer convicted of ripping off the school raised money to repay it by roping far-flung investors into funding a fictitious online fitness magazine, prosecutors said.

Nov 6 - By Damian Grass, Associated Press Writer
Whenever Latin pop sensation Alejandro Sanz writes music, he sets off on a "long mental journey" to find inspiration. But when Alicia Keys surprised the singer at a party in New York by joining him in an impromptu jam session, Sanz knew then that he'd found his muse.
Nov 6 - By David B. Caruso, Associated Press Writer
An engine tailcone fell off a Delta Air Lines jet shortly after takeoff Thursday and plummeted thousands of feet before landing harmlessly on a lawn in a Long Island residential neighborhood.

Nov 6 - By Justice B. Hill, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
I would give credence to speculation like this from only a handful of NBA writers. Marc Spears of Yahoo! comes to mind, so does Chris Broussard of ESPN. I can mention a few other names as well, but the list is short: shorter than the reins Kobe Bryant has on the mercurial Ron Artest to fit in with the Lakers.

Nov 6 - By Gregg Bell, AP Sports Writer
Rich Stearns works and lives just outside Seattle. He grew up in New York state. He lived in Philadelphia for 10 years.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and smuggling the cigarettes to New York.