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A Long Island woman convicted of acting as a "straw buyer" in a mortgage fraud scam has been ordered to give lectures on the perils of participating in such criminal schemes.
The central Pennsylvania city of York has elected its first black mayor, 40 years after violent race riots led to the death of a white police officer and a black woman.
The New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas is picking a new spokesman based on how well he eats chicken wings, sings drinking songs and dances an Irish jig.
Moammar Gadhafi's Bedouin-style tent, which brought a camel-themed tapestry and four days of consternation to a leafy New York suburb, was last seen Friday being bundled into a U-Haul.
Herbert York, founding chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and a world-renowned physicist who worked on the development of the atomic bomb, has died of leukemia. He was 87.
- Here’s a small but revealing sliver of news concerning our cool, hard-to-fathom president: According to his closest advisor, David Axelrod, Barack Obama really likes the novel he’s reading right now. In fact, he likes it “a lot.”
Who cares about a few raindrops? Both the Yankees and Mets are set to take their new stadiums for a test drive with exhibition games Friday evening.
A fire at a major hospital sent smoke pouring through an emergency room Wednesday, injuring at least six firefighters and forcing 600 patients to be moved across the sprawling complex.
Jed York began the final day of the San Francisco 49ers' season with a new job title. The 27-year-old team president ended it with another big move, making sure Mike Singletary will be his coach well into the future.
Nick Mangold was getting the oil in his car changed when two mechanics got into it near the water cooler.
New York - They say if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
NEW YORK - Larry Brown finally got the Knicks a victory in Madison Square Garden.
The economic downturn and slumping real estate market have left the city facing a $2.3 billion budget shortfall in the next fiscal year and even larger deficits in subsequent years, the mayor warned.
A suspicious fire tore through a three-story building Sunday, killing three people and sending victims whose clothes and hair were ablaze leaping from windows, authorities said.
During his trip to New York, the first German pope in centuries will visit one of the last places in the city's Roman Catholic archdiocese that still regularly offers Mass in German.
The USS New York, an amphibious assault ship built with scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center, was christened Saturday as a source of strength and inspiration for the nation.
An early morning fire killed three Guatemalan immigrant workers and seriously hurt two other people in a building where they rented rooms, authorities and neighbors said Saturday.
New Yorkers: They're smug, egotistical, and already think they run the country (if not the world). So what's the rest of the nation to do now that three of 'em are mentioned as White House hopefuls, ready to swap Penn Station for Pennsylvania Avenue?
A Republican hoping to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this fall is running a television ad that pairs Clinton's face with Osama bin Laden's and accuses her of opposing national security programs that may have helped thwart a terror plot on U.S.-bound flights from London.
Two centuries of kvetching, kvetching, kvetching. That's New York-ese — Yiddish, actually — for complaining, complaining, complaining. And it's the subject of a new booklet of letters both funny and fascinating — "The New York City Museum of Complaint" — that were written over centuries to the mayor of a city famed for denizens who whine in public.
John Spencer is bitterly attacking the national Republican Party for not rallying behind his bid to oust Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, complaining the situation reminds him of the combat patrols he went on in Vietnam.
'Teabaggers' Aggressively Pushing Hoffman's Candidacy Prompt Poll Workers in Two Towns in 23rd Congressional District to Call the Cops to Stop Them From Violating State Law Against Campaigning Within 100 Feet of Voting Stations; Backlash Against $2 Million Ad Blitz By Outsiders M …
Ky. site only one Harley-Davidson consideringThe York Dispatch reported that a company statement said that Harley-Davidson representatives met with Kentucky officials this week. Harley-Davidson spokesman Bob Klein said the company is also still considering the possibility of staying in York.
Brains: the secret to better schools - thestar.comFrench neuroscientist Bruno della Chiesa met with his country's education minister in Paris to talk about the groundbreaking international movement to link the fields of teaching and brain science.
Republican Candidate Pulls Out a Day After Right-Wing Group Pulls Dirty Trick With TV Ad Disguised as Liberal Group Praising Her Support for Abortion Rights and Same-Gender Marriage; With Less Than 24 Hours to Go Before Voters in Upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District Go …
A copy of "Manual of the Common Council of New York" has recently surfaced in rural Alabama. Mrs. Wendy S Sherker has recently revealed her discovery of the historic volume. Published in 1836, it has been hidden unseen in a secretary cabinet belonging to her for many years. Mrs.
Titanic anniversary cruise to repeat original route, menuThe historic journey will leave Southampton in early April, 2012 and will reach the exact location where the Titanic sank on April 14, 2012, marking the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.
New York City spending $24M Homeland Security windfall on wide-ranging security updateThe "Ring of Steel" security plan is coming to midtown Manhattan. The Empire State Bldg., Grand Central Terminal, and the United Nations will be surrounded with cameras, license plate readers, and chemical weapons detectors under the new plan to go into effect by 2011.
How New York Became Safe: The Full Story[A]fter New York City's astonishing crime drop in the nineties—much of which Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner William Bratton credited to the Broken Windows approach—a firestorm of academic criticism erupted, claiming that Broken Windows was racist, it harasse …
As much as the world and Americans disagreed and some disliked George W Bush the disrespect of my president BARACK OBAMA was just totally outrageous and totally racist by the Republican GOP.
The stimulus money for construction and jobs for Americans are only being used by construction companies still hiring cheap labor by using Mexicans and white Europeans,with no educatio, ,and no experience.
New York City firefighters 'forced' to bathe elephant The city and the firefighter's union have been at odds for years, but now the war of words is turning into a bit of a circus with an elephant at the center of the controversy"
Six-year-old Selected to be "Director of Fun" at National Railway Museum in United KingdomSam Pointon, age 6, has been selected to be "Director of Fun" at the National Railway Museum in the United Kingdom.
Sea The Stars retains world's-best tag with win in JuddmonteSea the Stars got the job done at the business end of Tuesday's Juddmonte International Stakes at York & cements his status as the world's top-rated racehorse.
Legendary Skateboarder Andy Kessler Has Died -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazine
Cop nabs robber minutes after graduating - Criminal weirdness- msnbc.comTen minutes after graduating from the police acadamy, Officer makes first arrest when he see's a man mugging a elderly man, It maybe a record for the fasted arrest made after graduating.
NYC Atheists group launches series of ads on buses in ManhattanTheir message is, "You don't have to believe in God to be a moral or ethical person."
Middle East conference anything but academicAt York University Mideast conference, things turned ugly: "Thus, we heard that Israel is a racist, apartheid state; that the Palestinians are the "indigenous" and Zionists the colonials; that the only reason for the unwillingness of Jewish Israelis to give up a Jewish national …
I like David Letterman. I think he's funny, witty and very quick on his feet. He has been a late night staple, even though he consistently ran behind Jay Leno for years.
New York declares war on geese to prevent airport bird strikesAuthorities in New York have declared war on the large flocks of Canada geese that congregate around the city's airports, and will cull 2,000 in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the bird strike that forced a passenger plane to ditch in the Hudson river earlier this year.
2 More Deaths in City Linked to Swine Flu - City Room Blog - NYTimes.comTwo more deaths linked to swine flu — both of adults in their early to mid-40s — were reported by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Wednesday, bringing the total H1N1-related fatalities in the city to seven.
At Sotheby's, Enthusiasm Wanes for Modern Masters in Season's 1st AuctionPicasso and Giacometti were magical names a year ago, but at Sotheby's on Tuesday night, works by these artists went unsold. That included a 1938 Picasso portrait that decorated the cover of the sale's catalog and was being sold by a victim of Bernard L.
Senator Specter, meet your new friendsWhat does the future hold for Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter? A lot of uncertainty, soured relationships, and possible disaster. And that's just with his new-found friends in the Democratic Party.
I've been a Yankee fan my entire life and I intend to be one no matter what happens. But there are certain facts we cannot leave out.
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