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Billionaire investors square off on live TV
A long-simmering spat between billionaire investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman boiled over into a shouting match on live television Friday. The two ...
Arcade video shooting games pulled after massacres
It was 10 days after a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators in Newtown, Conn., when Tracey Hyams and her family came upon a teenager ...
'Miracle On Ice' jersey going to auction in NYC
Mike Eruzione's sensational winning goal against the Soviet hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics will forever be remembered as the "Miracle On Ice" ...
For Sandy's homeless, lives of anxiety in hotels
Diane Burstein spends her days sifting through apartment listings and disaster paperwork and her nights lying awake with worry, her daughter and ...
NY dad forgets baby in car for 8 hours on cold day
Authorities say a New York man who left his 1-year-old son in his car for eight hours in frigid weather only realized his mistake after a call from ...
Anthony's 28 points lead Knicks over Celts, 89-86
Carmelo Anthony's ill feelings toward Kevin Garnett didn't last long. His streak of 20-point games goes on. In their first meeting since a verbal ...
Duncan gets 14th NBA All-Star nod; 2 Bulls chosen
Tim Duncan was selected to his 14th All-Star game, Spurs teammate Tony Parker is joining him, and the Chicago Bulls also had two reserves chosen ...
Obama picks former prosecutor to head SEC
President Barack Obama sent his strongest signal yet Thursday that he wants the government to get tougher with Wall Street, appointing a former ...
2 TV projects target small NY town Sleepy Hollow
The quiet suburban New York village Sleepy Hollow is a hot topic among television creators. The Fox network said Thursday it has given the go-ahead ...
Top white-collar crime prosecutor to lead SEC
President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Mary Jo White, a former U.S. attorney who built a reputation prosecuting white-collar criminals, ...
US hit by new stomach bug spreading around globe
A new strain of stomach bug sweeping the globe is taking over in the U.S., health officials say. Since September, more than 140 outbreaks in the U.S.
Linda Pugach, blinded in infamous NYC crime, dies
Linda Pugach, who was blinded in 1959 when her lover hired hit men to throw lye in her face — and became a media sensation after later marrying him ...
2nd NY hospital warns of insulin pen infection
A second western New York hospital is notifying patients that they may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C through the improper ...
Ray Romano to perform at Garden of Laughs event
While everybody loves Raymond, it's stand-up comedy that Ray Romano loves most. The 55-year-old actor-comedian says performing live is his passion, ...
WTC workers scrawl graffiti of defiance, hope
On most construction projects, workers are discouraged from signing or otherwise scrawling on the iron and concrete. At the skyscraper rising at ...
Flooded and frozen: Cold torments storm survivors
Polar air settled in earnest over the Northeast after trekking through the Midwest, grinding trains to a halt, bursting pipes and bringing further ...
Beverage industry, NYC lawyers duel over drinks
The city defended its groundbreaking size limit on sugary drinks Wednesday as an imperfect but meaningful rein on obesity, while critics said it would ...
Feds: 3 nabbed for widespread Gozi computer virus
A computer virus that spread to more than a million computers worldwide, including some at NASA, and produced at least $50 million in illegal profits ...
Super Bowl or super brrr? Big game coming to NY
Amy Freeze can talk football and forecasts. So with the Super Bowl coming to New York next year, and with local temperatures stuck in the teens, the ...
AP IMPACT: Recession, tech kill middle-class jobs
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries ...
Experts back NYC's link of gun laws, lower crime
In his nationwide effort for tighter gun control, Mayor Michael Bloomberg attributes historic crime lows in New York to strict gun laws that are ...
Sin City Duke: Met moves 'Rigoletto' to Las Vegas
Diana Damrau recalled when she learned the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Rigoletto" would be set in the glitzy Rat Pack-era Las Vegas of ...
Biden meets with Democrats, stoking 2016 chatter
Joe Biden in 2016? The inauguration is barely over but the vice president already is dropping plenty of hints that he might have another political act
Judge lets NYPD resume suspicion-less stops
A federal judge let the New York Police Department on Tuesday temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while she ...