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NEW YORK - A former New York City nightclub bouncer has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for kidnapping a young woman as she walked home from class.

Gov. Paterson's State of the State speech was a lot like that sugary soda he wants to tax - too much fizzy sweet stuff and practically zero nutritional value.

With her Camelot pedigree and Park Avenue address, Caroline Kennedy is not exactly the average American woman.

Democrats took control of the state Senate Wednesday for the first time since 1965 and elected the first African-American senator to lead the chamber.

Venezuela's slumping oil earnings are starting to squeeze President Hugo Chavez's public spending spree and curb the international aid he uses to counter U.S. influence.

A car receives gas at a Sunoco Station in Andover, Mass. Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israel's ground offensive in Gaza and a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over gas imports pushed oil prices above $47 a barrel ...

This cliched comedy "Bride Wars" tosses out stereotypes about female materialism and cattiness with all the giddy gusto of a newly married woman flinging the bouquet at her single girlfriends.

Gov. David Paterson prepares his State of the State message in his office. Gov. David Paterson sees New York's condition as "perilous," but the courage to balance the government's budget and priorities can ...

Four hospitals in New York state paid kickbacks to get more patients into their drug treatment programs, which billed Medicaid for services that weren't standard or necessary and lacked state certification, ...

There, for example, was a tanned and grinning Vice President-elect Joe Biden, who - bizarrely - was sworn in to a seventh Senate term.

Actor Rip Torn has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving charges in Connecticut, nearly two years after being fined and losing his license for similar charges in New York.

New York's unemployment claims systems have crashed, overwhelmed by tens of thousands of jobless New Yorkers trying to call or log in at once ahead of this week's filing deadline.

The collection of the late author's documents includes coded messages Hemingway compiled when he used his fishing boat, El Pilar, to ply the waters north of Cuba during World War II, believing German U-boats ...

Israel's ground offensive in Gaza and a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over gas imports pushed oil prices above $48 a barrel Monday, but some analysts say there's more than just unrest in the Middle East ...

Actress Sienna Miller will make her debut at London Fashion Week next month with a collection co-designed with her older sister Savannah.

Notable events leading to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's withdrawal of his bid to become commerce secretary:

_ Early 2003: Richardson wins legislative approval of a $1.6 billion highway and transportation construction program called Governor Richardson's Investment Partnership, or GRIP.

_ October 2003: CDR Financial Products Inc. CEO David Rubin contributes $25,000 to Richardson political committee, Moving America Forward.

_ 2004: Bonds are issued for GRIP transportation program. CDR, which is based in Beverly Hills, Calif., becomes part of a team of investment and financial advisers selected by the New Mexico Finance Authority to put together the GRIP financing. CDR earns at least $951,000 in fees in 2004 for its services to the authority.

In this Dec. 17, 1998 file photo, guests at New York's Rainbow Room dance on the revolving floor of the restaurant and nightclub just before it was temporarily closed and remodeled.

Pumping a solution continuously through a donated kidney raised the chances of a successful transplant when compared to simple cold storage of the organ, European researchers report.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed solidarity with Israelis threatened by Hamas rockets on Sunday in a daylong trip to Israel that included visits to two towns targeted by the Islamic militant movement in recent weeks.

During the visit to the embattled town of Sderot, Bloomberg and his party, which included Rep. Gary Ackerman, a New York Democrat, were briefly hustled to a bomb shelter when a missile warning went off.

In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Bloomberg said he fully understood Israel's actions. 'You should rest assured, if anyone in New York was being threatened, my instruction to the NYPD (New York police) would be to use all the resources at their disposal to protect civilians,' Bloomberg said.

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