An elderly member of an influential New York theater family was...
Alleged DWI cop Andrew Kelly flip-flopped when grilled by police...
The U.S. premiere of "Itutu," a collaborative proj...
A scalper arrested for selling fake World Series tickets outside...
State police trawled an upstate river yesterday following the...
CONDÉ Nast CEO Charles Townsend and Chairman S.I. Newhouse, Jr. are turning to Washington, DC-based crisis manager and media coach Michael Sheehan...
It took a while for the city and the Yankees to get together with this parade business, if you want to know the truth. Babe Ruth never got to see the...
THE Yankees found $181 million lying around last offseason, and made a late, victorious bid to corral Mark Teixeira, so never say never when it...
Alex Rodriguez didn’t want to celebrate prematurely, he knows better, but he couldn’t help himself, couldn’t keep his arms from flying in the air and...
Mariano Rivera jogged slowly toward the mound. This is what the beginning of the end has looked like in this generation, Rivera’s steady procession...
AS THE Yankees ride down the Canyon of Heroes today, the Giants hunker down inside their bunker and try to right a season gone terribly wrong and...
Let's end one debate before it really gets started. The Red Sox gave it a nice run for a while, but the Yankees are the team of the decade -- again....
THERE'S just one number that counts, being No. 1. Manager Joe Girardi has understood that from the first day he put on a baseball uniform. Now...
Bill Walton, who yes terday hit 57, packed it in this week as a TV basketball analyst for more of the same reason he retired as a basketball player,...
The Bronx was up and so was the Battery today as Yankees fans flooded the Canyon of Heroes for the first time in nine years to toast the World Series champs. Afterward, the players were handed keys... Read Full Story
An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment and left a phone message saying goodbye to a friend in the days before the rampage that left... Read Full Story
HACKENSACK, N.J. — A New Jersey jury has rejected a Florida man’s claims that he was too fat to kill and has convicted him of murdering his former son-in-law. Edward Ates said he didn’t have the... Read Full Story
Wrong-way driver mom Diane Schuler smoked pot on a regular basis and was drinking the weekend before the fiery crash that killed eight, according to a new...
The Yankees victory has even helped fill the cash-strapped coffers at the MTA. The new Yankees-E. 153 St. Metro-North station, which opened in May, brought...
A Queens woman who killed and castrated her father was sentenced to the maximum today by a judge who complained a sympathetic verdict from the jury took away any chance of further mercy. Justice Arthur Cooperman gave Brigitte Harris five to...
An NYPD transit cop from Queens was sentenced to 25 years-to-life today after he was found guilty of second-degree murder for fatally gunning down his...
MONTICELLO, N.Y. — An upstate New York man who hid his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashed her Social Security checks has been sentenced to six...
HACKENSACK, N.J. — A New Jersey jury has rejected a Florida man’s claims that he was too fat to kill and has convicted him of murdering his former son-in-law. Edward Ates said he didn’t have the energy to accurately shoot his former son-in-law and...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — An upstate New York massage therapist has admitted secretly videotaping a client as she undressed at his business. Mark Boice of Jordan...
ALBANY, N.Y. — Democratic Gov. David Paterson has launched a multimillion dollar, statewide TV ad campaign — the first in the 2010 governor’s race. The ads...
Hours after dispatching the Phillies, the Yankees went on to win the World Champagne-ship. The players, their families and friends knocked off dozens of bottles of bubbly as they partied until dawn at the Chelsea hot spot 1OAK yesterday while...
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Police on Long Island are continuing their search for two of three men who attacked and robbed two other men while shouting an anti-gay slur....
ROOSEVELT, N.Y. — An engine tail cone popped off a Delta airlines jet shortly after takeoff from New York’s Kennedy Airport. It plummeted thousands of feet...
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A former New York City teacher sentenced to prison for sending lewd computer messages to minors is facing the same accusations on Long Island....
It was high drama some 200 feet up yesterday as a deranged woman threatened to jump from an Upper East Side apartment building and police tried to save her life. The woman made her threat to end it all at about 4 p.m. yesterday at 500 E. 85th St...
ORLANDO, Fla. — A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others. Jason Rodriguez, 40, surrendered about three hours later,...
LOS ANGELES — A judge has sentenced “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis to time served and a year of probation for filing false income tax returns. U.S....
HERAT, Afghanistan, -- Two U.S. soldiers transporting supplies in Afghanistan were reported missing on Friday and the Taliban said they were holding the bodies...
WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million people can't find...
NEW DELHI - At least 30 people were killed and 40 others were injured on Friday when a bus plunged into a gorge in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh,...
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police have arrested a man accused of stealing a truck carrying 900 doses of swine flu vaccine. The suspect is a 38-year-old man with a...
A British woman with two vaginas -- and two periods, two cervixes and two uteruses -- is telling her story today on "The Tyra Banks Show." Lauren Williams,...
Adidas ended its $3 million endorsement contract with the University of Central Florida's athletic department after one of Michael Jordan's sons played a game for the school wearing Nike shoes named after his father. Marcus Jordan, a freshman...
CONCORD, NH -- A new analysis by a Dartmouth College professor concludes that the infamous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle in his backyard...
The America's Cup may be heading Down Under. In a bid to end two years of legal wrangling, the cup-holding Alinghi team yesterday offered to hold the next edition of yachting's most famous race off Australia in February. Its previous choice of...
ATLANTA --Excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads and other artifacts that may pinpoint the trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de...
The wail of a newborn may sound the same to the ears of sleep-deprived parents the world over, but, according to scientists, that's not the case: Babies cry in...
WASHINGTON -- Obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States each year -- and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter,...
Joe Girardi is going to wear a big goal on his back next season and dares every team in baseball to deny the Yankees reaching it. That’s the same back people...
Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon and Andy Pettitte will be with the Yankees when they bask in the glory of a ticker-tape parade today up the Canyon of Heroes as World Series champions. However, when the three step off the floats, will they be headed...
Andy Pettitte's decision over whether to return for a 16th major league season or retire will come down to his two families -- his own and the Yankees....
A year from now, the Yankees and Derek Jeter will be involved in the mother of all contract negotiations. Next season will be the last on Jeter's 10-year...
If the Phillies-Yankees World Series had progressed to a Game 7 last night, the Yankees would have had a hurting Mariano Rivera to close it out and would...
Hank Steinbrenner isn't The New Boss, but still considers himself a boss of the Yankees. The eldest Steinbrenner brother largely has disappeared from...
As if a Yankees-Phillies World Series wasn't cringe-inducing enough for the Mets, a look ahead to the NL East next season offers little solace. Glancing around the division, it appears the Mets' best hope for 2010 is to sign a power-hitting left...
For the Knicks, 2008 and 2009 are all about the summer of 2010, all about luring LeBron James to New York with the big promises of the world's biggest stage. James will get to see that stage first-hand today. His Yankees are having their parade...
There was Courtney Lee on the practice court yesterday, twenty minutes after everyone else on his team left: one dribble, jumper, one dribble, jumper....
"With the fourth pick in the 2004 NFL Draft, the Giants select Philip Rivers, quarterback, North Carolina State." Those words never triggered a rush of excitement from Rivers and never prompted the Giants to envision Rivers wearing their uniform...
The world’s scariest accountant is back. Behold the teeth spaced like Stonehenge, the body bent into a permanent comma. This is not the umpteenth remake of “A Christmas Carol.” Umpteenth, we hit around the time Mr. Magoo played Ebenezer S. Now the...
Inspired by previous mustache movies, like Matt Damon in “The Informant!” and Andy Samberg in “Hot Rod,” George Clooney (and Kevin Spacey) gamble that you won’t be able to stop giggling at their precious little ’staches in the inept and shapeless...
She's 16, morbidly obese and illiterate. She lives in 1987 Harlem with her abusive, welfare-scamming, couch-potato mother. Oh, and she's already pregnant for the second time -- by her AIDS-afflicted father. Meet Claireece Precious Jones, the...
What if you could re ceive $1 million tax-free dollars in cash for killing a stranger simply by pushing a button? If the premise of "The Box" sounds like it would make a dandy half-hour TV show, rest assured that this Richard Matheson story has...
Oprah will decide in the next few weeks if she can keep up the daily grind -- or throw in the towel on the most famous daytime TV show of all time. The talk show queen's contract is due to expire in 2011, at the end of her 25th year on the air....
'Law & Order" ripped the Taconic crash from the headlines -- but there are some stark departures from the news in tonight's episode. The Taconic crash...
How's this for a creepy coincidence: For the second time in a year, millions of Americans are going to be terrified by the sight of a pretty woman in Alaska. This time, though, it's totally different -- because we're talking about someone who can't...
Glenn Beck was recovering nicely yesterday from his emergency appendix surgery, according to his Web site. He had to leave in the middle of his radio program when he didn't feel well, and it turned out he had appendicitis. Beck's Web site...
Comedy Central has a fake news show, a fake opinion show and now they have a fake sports show. The network is pairing up with The Onion to give the laugh...
Game Six of the World Series -- when the Yankees won their 27th world championship -- was seen by an estimated 22.3 million viewers, capping the best ratings for a Series since the Boston Red Sox won it in 2004 after an 86-year drought. The...
Joe Girardi is going to wear a big goal on his back next season...
Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon and Andy Pettitte will be with the...
Andy Pettitte's decision over whether to return for a 16th major...
Sharon Osbourne is taking heat from fans of "Britain's Got Talent...
THE New York mayor won, the New York Yankees won, comes now the...
Andy Roddick and model wife Brooklyn Decker are condo shopping in...
Paula Abdul couldn't turn off the tears during a screening of the...
Paul Johnson Calderon can't stay out of trouble. The star of...
Is there another ring in A-Rod's future, this one of the boxing...
Riding a three-game losing streak, the Giants decided Friday to...
Johnny Damon says he'd like to return to the Yankees, but at...
She's 16, morbidly obese and illiterate. She lives in 1987...
Lyle Lovett is like a hero out of a classic Western: He's simple...
YOU gotta love that Arthur Laurents. At 91, standing about 5...
An elderly member of an influential New York theater family was...
Three men assaulted two other men in Long Island on Halloween...
Promising a bipartisan approach to New Jersey's tax and budget...
Blue-chip stocks crawled past the 10,000-point line to put...
Mel Karmazin's archenemy Charlie Ergen accidentally saved Sirius...
The New York Observer, the salmon-colored weekly owned by real...
Tomorrow's commissioning of USS New York (LPD 21), with 7½ tons...
As USS New York pre pares to join the fleet, she will enter a...
Tuesday's victories for New York Republicans are a huge win for...