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Speaking Tuesday at a midtown restaurant that is voluntarily adopting the city's sugary drink policy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the ban and said he is confident the city will win in appeal.
Vatican insiders said there is an outside chance that the Archbishop of New York could be elected pope.
The case has sparked a debate over free speech and whether officers are bound by the same rules of behavior on and off-duty.
A summit of city mayors will convene in February of next year in Johannesburg, to discuss ways to fight global climate change.
The two men whose bodies were found in a brush fire in Queens were killed for trying to rob drug dealers, police said.
A Brooklyn mother was demanding answers and action Tuesday, after her disabled 13-year-old daughter was pushed off a moving school bus.
A Connecticut Superior Court jury awarded more than $16 million Tuesday to a Bridgeport man who lost his leg after being struck by a state police squad car.
A Queens man has been sentenced to up to seven years in prison, after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter in the death of a worker on the Grand Central Parkway last summer.
Police and prosecutors in Newark were asking for help from the public Tuesday in identifying a rapist who forced his way into two homes at knifepoint.
Amar Diarrassouba's mother and father filed the lawsuit on Monday against McLane Food Service Distribution and driver Robert Carroll Jr.
Hurricane Sandy is taking an unexpected toll on local crops, and it could lead to higher prices at grocery stores.
Inside the seventh grade religion class at Immaculate Conception School in Tuckahoe, the teacher took the students through the news accounts from Vatican City, where the cardinals failed on the first day of conclave to elect a new pope.
The company spent less than $1,000 on an easy chair, dim lighting, cool green walls and a water fountain to help employees become more productive.
An investigation was under way Tuesday, following a car-into-pedestrian crash that left a man dead in the Bronx.
Police on Tuesday continued to search for suspects in an attack in Richmond Hill, Queens, that left a man dead and a teenage boy injured.
