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A prison system official says a New York City man is free after spending nearly two decades behind bars for murder before a judge declared him innocent.
A judge Thursday threw out a murder case against a man imprisoned for nearly two decades and declared he was innocent, saying a key witness lied and others influenced one other into identifying him as the shooter.
Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism.
David Tarloff lives in a deeply troubled inner world.
The lawyer for a woman accused of drunken driving when her car full of children crashed, killing an 11-year-old, says she remains distraught and on suicide watch more than two weeks after the New York City wreck.
The families of three American hikers detained in Iran said Wednesday they were hopeful the three would be released and return home soon after Iran' president said he would ask the country's judiciary to be lenient in their case.
The five skyscrapers were all supposed to rise by early next decade to replace the ravaged World Trade Center, with the city's tallest towers set in a spiral evoking the Statue of Liberty's torch.
DJ AM had prescription pills in his stomach and one in his throat when police found him dead in his apartment, a New York City official said Wednesday.
Buzzing through some of the world's busiest airspace, New York's sightseeing helicopters give tourists a bird's-eye view of the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty.
The Web site said an herbal remedy could cure cancer and offered miraculous firsthand accounts. One woman offered to "share my experience": The formula had routed her lymphoma, sparing her radiation treatment, she said.
Volunteers and Sept. 11 victims' relatives will read the names of the lost together at this year's commemoration, and the families will again be able to pay respects at ground zero even though the site is under construction, officials said Tuesday.
When Jerry Damman first got news his son may have been found after vanishing from Long Island more than 50 years ago, he said it "was almost too good to believe."
A marketing executive for the renowned toy maker Steiff filed an $80 million lawsuit Monday accusing the company's CEO of raping her in a car during a yearslong campaign of unwelcome advances.
When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list.
After Omar Edwards achieved a dream by graduating from the New York Police Department academy, he was so proud he wore his badge around his apartment.
The 1970s gay porn idol Jack Wrangler has died at age 62.
Alberta Sorensen grew up knowing nearly nothing about her origins — not even her true birthday. What she knew was a Manhattan building and a nun her adoptive parents proudly took her to visit once a year.
It's the 21 Club for the 21st Century.
Before it became an unforgettable story of luck and heroism, US Airways Flight 1549 was on course to be a catastrophe. In five minutes of flight, the stricken jetliner sprinted past one nightmare scenario after another.
If Caroline Kennedy had, you know, only known. Tracking the would-be New York senator's verbal tics has become a political parlor game in the days since she gave her first round of in-depth interviews, even spawning a hip-hop-style mash-up online blending her "you knows" with President-elect Barack Obama's "uhs."
Of all the words that have been used to describe the Bernard L. Madoff scandal, the most emotionally charged may be "Jewish."
Dissent is woven deep into the fabric of the New School, a left-leaning university that was founded as a freethinking experiment and became a haven for intellectuals fleeing persecution in Hitler's Germany.
This season's greeting: Try to have a happy holiday.
A prominent cigarette paper maker with drug-culture cachet is accusing a T-shirt company of stealing its distinctive style for a design celebrating President-elect Barack Obama's victory.
State officials will now let married same-sex couples list both their names on their children's birth certificates in a policy shift deeply important to many gays and lesbians.
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