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Like 9/11 concert, musicians turn out for Sandy
Call the "12-12-12" benefit show "The Concert for New York City" 2.0. Eleven years after the benefit concert in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist ...
Music, comedy strike defiant tone at Sandy concert
Musicians were so intent upon helping victims of Superstorm Sandy that they didn't seem to want their benefit concert in New York to end. The final ...
NY police: LA man's killer silent, cool, precise
Police say the shooter of a Los Angeles man in broad daylight on a New York City street was so cool and precise he left no doubt he's killed before, ...
Gimmicky date a boost for lovelorn Las Vegas
Las Vegas, land of the quickie wedding, is in the midst of a serious love recession, and chapels in the city accustomed to playing the numbers were ...
NJ man denies killing NY boy who vanished in 1979
A man charged with killing a 6-year-old boy who infamously vanished in 1979 while walking to catch a school bus pleaded not guilty Wednesday as his ...
Mourners gather at funeral for Chiefs' Belcher
Jovan Belcher was remembered Wednesday for the accomplishments of a life that ended so suddenly and violently. Several hundred mourners gathered for ...
Broadway faces potential holiday labor headache
The union representing hundreds of Broadway theater cleaners, porters, elevator operators and bathroom attendants voted Wednesday to authorize its ...
Dodgers on track to pass Yanks in 2013 payroll
The Los Angeles Dodgers are on track to become only the second major league team with a $200 million payroll and could end the New York Yankees' ...
Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92
The kids at first didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival, in ...
Heinicke, Breitenstein lead AP FCS All-Americans
Taylor Heinicke passed his way through the record books on his way to becoming an All-American. Heinicke, the record-setting quarterback from Old ...
Bengals must recognize Eagles haven't quit
The Philadelphia Eagles haven't completely given up on the season. They damaged Tampa Bay's playoff chances last weekend and get an opportunity ...
NYPD: Getaway car found in slaying of Calif. man
Police revealed Wednesday that they found a getaway car used in an execution-style daylight slaying of a Los Angeles man on a busy Manhattan street ...
After Sandy, NYC eyes moving power gear higher
A major push is on to move New York City's electrical infrastructure to higher ground or upper floors after Superstorm Sandy sent seawater pouring ...
NY charge dropped against woman on 'Wife Swap'
A prostitution charge in New York against a former teen pageant princess who once appeared on the reality TV show "Wife Swap" has been dropped.
AP source: Youkilis, Yankees reach 1-year deal
Kevin Youkilis is about to get a different look at the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. The hard-nosed Youkilis, who helped personify Boston's championship ...
Police suspect LA man was lured into NYC ambush
Someone wanted Brandon Lincoln Woodard dead — bad enough to apparently lure him to a midtown Manhattan block for what looked like a professional hit.
Anthony scores 45, Knicks rally to beat Nets
Now, this Knicks-Nets rivalry is really on. If it hadn't started when the Nets left New Jersey and set up shop in the Knicks' city, it surely arrived ...
Delta grabs bigger share of key NY-London route
Delta Air Lines is grabbing a bigger share of the world's most important travel route: New York to London. The airline is paying $360 million for ...
NY, 6 other states suing EPA over drilling methane
Seven Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states announced plans Tuesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, saying it is violating the Clean Air ...
HSBC to pay $1.9B to settle money-laundering case
British bank HSBC has agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle a New York based-probe in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics ...
NY's top court: NYC gang member not a terrorist
Street gangsters who commit assaults and killings are not terrorists under the statute enacted after hijackers crashed jets into the World Trade ...
Strauss-Kahn, NYC hotel maid settle her lawsuit
When a settlement ended the last legal fallout from the sexual assault allegation that sank his political career, Dominique Strauss-Kahn kept his ...
Peppermint pigs a smashing tradition in NY
A holiday tradition in this upstate New York resort town has a peppermint twist: pig-shaped hard candies are sold with little metal hammers to smash ...
Alan Alda asks scientists to explain: What's time?
Professor Alan Alda has a homework assignment for scientists. Yes, that Alan Alda. The actor known for portraying Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" ...