Report: Nassau County To Lay Off 300 Civil Service Employees Today
It's all part of an effort to close a $310 million budget gap.
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It's all part of an effort to close a $310 million budget gap.
New York bar owners are worried that a Harlem community board's proposal to shift the closing time from 4 a.m. to 2 a.m. could spread to other areas and damage the industry.
It took a decade for families of those who died on 9/11/01 to have a place to go to mourn their loss. Finally, back in September, on the 10 year anniversary of the terrible attacks at Ground Zero, the memorial opened.
They say that the rights of Muslims are being "flagrantly violated," adding they "cannot in good conscience appear at a public gathering with the government official who is ultimately responsible."
Paul Halvatzis, 52, of Flushing, will be facing a razor this Friday at the Redken Saloon Salon in Astoria to shave the mustache he's sported for the past 35 years.
A close shave is turning into a fresh start for an 80-year-old East Harlem barber.
Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday said that not getting his proposed public education overhaul through the Legislature is his biggest regret of 2011.
Paula Rogovin of Bergen County says her youngest son is a Marine who served two tours in Iraq. But she never supported the war and is now concerned about the troops' well-being.
The boy was just 8-years-old when Evan Sachs, 23, attacked him at a Dave & Buster's restaurant in Westbury in October of 2010. Sachs was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to the attack.
New York author Eleanor Lerman and her videologist brother Philip Lerman were so inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement that they combined their talents to produce a short film honoring the demonstrators.
With the cold weather moving in to the Tri-State area, business may start to pick up at the local ski slopes.
Commuting by car got a bit less attractive in 2011.
The Turnpike Authority says the average passenger-vehicle toll will go up from $2.20 to $3.30 on the NJ Turnpike and from $0.70 to $1.05 on the Garden State Parkway.
This morning the medical examiner's office released an autopsy report on the victims -- whose deaths were ruled accidental.
Newt Gingrich, stumping in Mason City, Iowa with less than a week before the caucuses, blamed his slippage in the polls on negative campaigning by his competitors. But that didn't stop him from going negative against a non-candidate.
