Pretty Christmas Decorations Still Pose Fire Hazards
Christmas trees and other holiday decorations may be pretty to look at, but they also pose a major fire hazard, officials say.
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Christmas trees and other holiday decorations may be pretty to look at, but they also pose a major fire hazard, officials say.
Senate Republicans have blocked a bill to aid people who got sick after exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse.
On the 30th anniversary of Lennon's murder outside his Manhattan apartment building, admirers played his music nearby at Strawberry Fields and placed flowers on a mosaic named for his song "Imagine.''
360 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress passed the War Hazards Compensation Act. It has now been over nine years since the attacks of 9/11.
The Expansion Era Committee has denied George Steinbrenner's posthumous bid for election into baseball's Hall of Fame.
The House voted to censure Charlie Rangel for ethical violations. Censure is the second most serious punishment Congress can hand out -- one step short of expulsion.
This year's New York City Marathon truly was a run for the money - as it raised a record amount for charities.
There is now one month left in the Congressional session, and one more month to pass the 9/11 health bill to provide medical care for sickened Ground Zero responders.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Rockefeller Center on Tuesday night to watch the lighting of the country's most famous Christmas tree
The search was on Monday night for tech-savvy bank thieves in New Jersey. Their brazen heist began with a small device hooked up to an indoor ATM machine at Bank of America in Hasbrouck Heights.
Backers of a bill to aid workers who became sick after working in the World Trade Center's ruins are hoping a display of police badges will help build support.
If you thought Black Friday was big, Cyber Monday specialists say that was just the warmup.
A high-kicking Kung Fu Panda and a diary-toting Wimpy Kid will join the giant balloon lineup for the 84th annual parade.
Kermit, Snoopy, the Kool-Aid man … they're all there and ready to go. On Wednesday the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons were inflated and on standby for Thursday's big event.
The last time Sara Marmurek saw Wladyslaw Misiuna, she was at a concentration camp in Poland.
Supporters of the 9/11 health bill feel they need just one more vote for the measure to pass in the U.S. Senate.
With the Thanksgiving holiday just days away, travelers are dreading not just the long lines, but the pat-downs some say are way too intrusive.
New York City is looking for a new taxi producer and wants the input of everyday New Yorkers.
Rangel's fall from grace came in the very space he built a legacy, in the halls of Congress, where colleagues called him out for corruption.
The House ethics committee's chief counsel has recommended that Rep. Charles Rangel be censured in connection with a finding that he engaged in improper financial and fundraising conduct.
Instead of the strains of "New York, New York," fans at Yankee Stadium will hear a different tune on Saturday.
Rangel, who has been without a defense team for weeks, can waive the hearing and ask the committee to deliberate his punishment.
Mayor Bloomberg and supporters of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act were in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to push for the bill's passage.
The state Republican Party is hoping to cash in on the governor's popularity by selling a line of merchandise.
Officer Andre Menzies, 35, was killed early Monday morning on his way home from a shift at the Queens Housing Bureau.
