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BracketRacket: Zags, Ryan's Wiki and Geno is 59
Welcome back to BracketRacket, the one-stop shop for all your NCAA tournament needs. Today, we say farewell to our first No. 1 seed and explain why ...
Tilda Swinton performs art of sleeping in NYC
Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. A museum spokeswoman says the "Moonrise Kingdom" star ...
Bloomberg, mayor group tout big gun control push
A new $12 million television ad campaign from Mayors Against Illegal Guns will push senators in key states to back gun control efforts, including ...
Letter from DNA discoverer to be auctioned in NYC
Sixty years ago scientist Francis Crick wrote a letter to his 12-year-old son saying he and a colleague had discovered something "very beautiful" — ...
'Book of Mormon' smashes 1-day box office record
The seemingly unstoppable hit "The Book of Mormon" has broken another record — this time on the other side of the Atlantic. The quirky, profane ...
Penguins rally for 11th straight win
The Pittsburgh Penguins are rolling so well without Evgeni Malkin, the star center might have trouble cracking the lineup once he is healthy enough ...
Anthony scores 37, Knicks clinch playoff berth
When the New York Knicks signed Kenyon Martin last month, they hoped the veteran big man might help them with a playoff push. Left short-handed by a ...
Police: 4 people shot, 1 fatally, in Coney Island
A gunman who entered a Coney Island public housing development apartment and shot four people, killing one, is the subject of a manhunt, police said ...
Bennett, Belafonte, Hudson at Winehouse gala
Tony Bennett doesn't think Amy Winehouse's life was tragic. He believes the singer who died at age 27 lived a complete life because she was able to ...
Lawyer: No charges for Lohan in NYC assault case
New York City prosecutors will not charge Lindsay Lohan in an alleged fight at a Manhattan nightclub in November, an attorney for the actress said ...
The cash register rings its last sale
Ka-ching! The cash register may be on its final sale. Stores across the country are ditching the old-fashioned, clunky machines and having salespeople ...
New Yorkers boldly flout law to keep pigs
Pigs have long gotten a bad rap. The four-legged ungulates are considered so messy and stinky that they're synonymous with slovenliness: Eat too much ...
Questions linger in 1990 murder of rabbi in NYC
One man's liberty could mean another's murder will never be solved. Relatives of David Ranta rejoiced in a Brooklyn courthouse Thursday as Ranta — ...
Senate gun bill would expand background checks
Gun control legislation the Senate debates next month will include an expansion of federal background checks for firearms buyers, Majority Leader ...
Official: NY tax breaks would apply to 'Tonight'
If New York isn't trying hard to lure "The Tonight Show" back to Manhattan, it's doing a pretty good impression. A Cuomo administration official said ...
Even huge deficits aren't derailing Heat
For the Miami Heat, it has been anything but an ordinary path along the way to this extraordinary 24-game winning streak. There have been blowouts, ...
Judge frees man convicted of killing NY rabbi
A man who spent more than two decades behind bars for the cold-blooded slaying of a Brooklyn rabbi was released Thursday into the arms of his weeping ...
Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens dies at 99
Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens, who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years spanning the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 99.
Changes in rules, strategy help to clean up NHL
The fear is gone. The doubt too for that matter. Ditto the hesitation. A year into his comeback from the concussion-like symptoms that nearly derailed ...
NY court: Lifetime can air movie on grisly killing
A New York state appeals court has lifted the Lifetime television network's prohibition from airing a movie this weekend on a man who killed his ...
Brother of hedge fund founder indicted in NYC
The brother of a jailed one-time billionaire hedge fund boss has been charged with conspiring with his brother to cheat on Wall Street and earn nearly ...
Jeter to only play exhibition games in minors
New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman says shortstop Derek Jeter will play only in minor league spring training games for the rest of spring ...
Barbs of racism, anti-Semitism in NY school clash
School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in ...
Director Scorsese urges NYC to preserve Bowery
Famed director Martin Scorsese wants New York's mean streets to keep some of their grittiness. The "Gangs of New York" director has joined an effort ...
NY court hears arguments on town fracking bans
Backers of natural gas drilling and environmental advocates wrangled Thursday over whether New York's towns have the legal right to ban oil and gas ...