Former Middlesex Sheriff Joseph Spicuzzo resigned as chairman from the Middlesex County Democratic Party hours after being arrested and charged with taking bribes and official misconduct.

In a move aimed at increasing the number of organ donors, a new bill, if passed, would add a section to the driver's license application requiring applicants to opt for or against organ donation before the license is processed.

More kids are trying to get into private schools, according to data released on Monday by the Educational Records Bureau.

Hundreds of demonstrators stood in the rain in Times Square on Sunday to protest Congressman Peter King's hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims.

Organic spoils can be turned into soil at more green markets beginning Saturday.

At 96th Street and 3rd Avenue on what's normally a leisurely walk from the subway at the end of a work week, there was quite a commotion. How did this jeep get on top of the town car? Fortunately the drivers of both vehicles didn't seem injured. Nonetheless, emergency medical technicians were checking them out in an ambulance.

Ex-state Senator Pedro Espada Jr., from the Bronx, and his son Pedro G. Espada appeared in Brooklyn federal court Friday on charges of embezzling more than $500,000 from their federally funded Bronx health clinic.

Iron workers neared completion of the Borough of Manhattan Community College's Fiterman Hall's 15 story steel frame in Lower Manhattan this week.

The New York City Central Labor Council, the umbrella organization representing more then a million workers, lost two powerful unions this week because of a controversy over its president.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined other elected officials, tenants and advocates on the steps of City Hall Thursday to protest the House's proposal to cut federal funding from New York City's affordable housing programs.

The director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art said he's "increasingly concerned" about security at historical sites in Egypt and is urging action on the part of Egyptian authorities that they be protected.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state's last in, first out law is "not the best way to do layoffs" when it comes to the city's education system and he wants to help Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a fierce opponent of the law. But the governor isn't in any rush.

As the international world calls for Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi to step down, some local senators are urging the U.S. to revisit Gadhafi's role in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan held off on a decision on a challenge by former clients of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff about how a trustee is calculating gains and losses.

States and local governments should build up larger "rainy day" funds, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday evening.

City principals are gnashing their teeth over the Department of Education's new rule that requires them to give back half of any unspent funds by the end of the year.

Two New Jersey men arrested at JFK last June on their way to the Middle East pleaded guilty to charges that they tried to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group.

The city has scrapped a plan to build a pedestrian plaza in the middle of 34th Street.

Property owners in Willets Point, Queens, under threat of losing their land by eminent domain as the city makes way for a redevelopment of the area, vowed to reopen a legal case they lost last year.