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A Manhattan judge turned down Robert Vineberg's request Wednesday that would put the case in the hands of a drug court that emphasizes treatment instead of punishment.
Police have arrested a suspect in an attack on a police officer in the subway in the Bronx earlier this month, and have decided that a woman that had been wanted earlier was not involved.
A message in a bottle that was sent adrift from Long Island got an unexpected response from an unexpected location.
According to authorities, Commissioner Thomas Krumpter "was following too closely'' when he rear-ended a vehicle that caused a three-car, chain-reaction accident.
New York state legislative leaders said Wednesday they were closing in on a deal to fund pre-kindergarten, and discussing a delay to Common Core academic standards as they tried to finalize budget bills this week.
In a move that won the praise of President Barack Obama, Connecticut State lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of raising the state's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017.
Neighbors joined forces in a life-saving effort this week, after an unmarked police squad car collided with a church van in New Lots, Brooklyn.
The 10-cent carry out bag fee would apply to markets and bodegas, street vendors selling fruit, vegetables and general merchandise and retail stores including clothing, drug and department stores.
Fed up commuters on the Metro-North Railroad got a chance to give the railroad's new president a piece of their minds Wednesday.
Timothy Puskas was out on bail, waiting for his trial in a hit-and-run case when prosecutors say he not only violently attacked someone, but then brutally killed 22-year-old Kean University student William McCaw.
The first phase of the plan is to install sewer systems under more than 10,000 homes near the Forge River, the Connetquot River and the Carlls River.
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio Wednesday, saying he has some "real disagreements" with the man now occupying his former desk at City Hall.
Ward Melville High School teacher Stephen Malusa, 47, is accused of fondling a then 15-year-old student in May of last year.
The head of the Citi Bike program is resigning from his post, program officials announced Wednesday.
There is new hope for people with fibromyalgia - and it comes from magnets. Fibromyalgia is the most common cause of chronic, widespread pain in the U.S., affecting between six and 12 million people nationwide.
