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The New York Police Department property division has failed to properly secure and track hundreds of guns because of sloppy storage and antiquated record-keeping, a city audit has found.

Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took one of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' hats to a meeting at the Apollo Theater in New York.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is engaged to a woman he met last September during a trip to New York, according to a published report Thursday evening.

You can call it an economic sign of the times. The latest Siena Research Institute poll out later this morning shows consumer confidence in New York State is at a record low.

A sculpture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence made from a one-tonne block of cheddar cheese glistened on the sidewalk of Times Square in New York on Thursday as an artist's tribute to the Fourth ...

Oil prices neared $146 a barrel Thursday for the first time ever on reports of declining U.S. stockpiles and the threat of conflict with Iran.

Forest managers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states soon will enlist wasps to help search for a tree-killing insect that has been devastating woodlands.

Oil prices breached 142 dollars per barrel again on Wednesday, nearing recent record heights, as traders awaited the latest weekly snapshot on energy stockpiles in the United States.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a clear message to her constituents Wednesday: I love New York.

According to everyone, Clay Felker's New York magazine was the best. 'Clay Felker's New York' is a phrase that refers to a man who died yesterday (at age 82, at his home in Manhattan, from throat cancer) and the magazine he started and edited -- first in 1964 as a Sunday supplement to the New York Herald Tribune, and then relaunched on its own with Felker's last dime at the time, in 1968, until Rupert Murdoch wrested it away from him in a 1977 takeover.

It could also be about a place that is always in a state of vanishing, a New York City before everyone caught on, a New York in the throes of constant reinvention and trendification, a place where the idea of radical chic was born and so was the national cult of Ken Kesey and so was a case of Saturday Night Fever. Clay Felker's New York was a magazine written and designed by and for the coolest people who ever lived, and, to the degree that they're still around, they'll never let you forget it.

Asbury Park - Madam Marie Costello, who had told fortunes since the 1930s and became famous in rock music history for her presence and predictions on the Asbury Park boardwalk, died Friday, her great-granddaughter, Sally ...

Oil prices neared $143 a barrel Tuesday amid concerns about a potential conflict between Iran and Israel and a weakening dollar.

By Matthew Bigg

ATLANTA (Reuters) - For black Americans, the road to political inclusion that has allowed Democratic candidate Barack Obama to make a serious bid for the White House has been long and difficult.

After the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in 1863, a series of laws and amendments to the U.S. constitution allowed Hiram Revels to be elected to the senate in 1870 in Mississippi as the country's first African American congressman.

But only a small number of black Americans have entered the U.S. senate or become state governors since then and most of those who have found a slot on a presidential ticket had no chance of winning.

A spokesman for former New York Gov. George Pataki says the Republican was bounced as a state delegate supporting John McCain at the GOP's national convention.

Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U.S. defense contractors while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004.

The World Trade Center's owner on Monday proposed scrapping the schedule and budget for the prolonged rebuilding of the site of the Sept.

Today is Monday, June 30, the 182nd day of 2008. There are 184 days left in the year.

World oil prices closed in on $US142 in Asian trades today, pushed up by continued worries over supply and the weak US currency, dealers said.

Two New York Army National Guard Soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Sunday.

Driving with one hand on the wheel and the other on a cell phone is no longer an option for Washington state drivers.