The Associated Press

The Environmental Protection Agency said New York regulators should set limits for radioactive materials in gas-drilling wastewater sent to public treatment plants before allowing any hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells in the state.

A man who admitted stabbing his stepfather and two others to death in a rampage across the city will be sentenced next week.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, adding to a first-place finish in last week's Iowa caucuses and establishing himself as the man to beat for the Republican presidential nomination.

A suburban New York nuclear reactor has been shut down to repair a pump.

Civil rights groups say barricades surrounding New York City's Zuccotti Park violate zoning law by restricting public access.

A lawyer for New Jersey's sports authority tells jurors his client's negligence didn't cause an escalator accident at Giants Stadium four years ago.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers say they're in plea negotiations in a rare state-level terror case against a New York City man charged with building a homemade bomb to try to attack soldiers, police and other government targets.

A 3-year-old girl died at a hospital Friday after being found bleeding from puncture wounds on her face and neck in the arms of her rambling, incoherent mother.

When New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan got word he was becoming a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, he knew just who to call: Mom.

Christian ministers and Muslim leaders say they're joining to oppose police surveillance of ethnic groups in New York City.

Federal officials say 10 members of a violent international street gang known as "MS-13" have been charged with racketeering and attempted murder after a lengthy investigation.

A New York City man accused of four New Year's Day arson attacks in Queens has been arraigned at his hospital bedside.

Hundreds of people are attending a funeral in New York City for three girls who died along with their grandparents in a Christmas morning fire in Connecticut.

The man charged with firing the shot that killed a police officer responding to a report of a break-in says in court papers he didn't mean to fire the gun and he is sorry that it happened.

State police say a bus carrying prisoners from New York City has overturned on the state Thruway in the northern suburbs.

A Manhattan real estate agency says the average sale price of a city apartment has dropped slightly since the last quarter, mostly due to a steep decline in condominium sales.

A funeral service will be held in New York this week for three girls killed with their grandparents in a Christmas morning house fire in Connecticut.

The state has closed the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island, the seventh prison, camp or work release facility shuttered in 2011 as New York transferred several thousand inmates and staff to its 60 remaining sites to try to save millions of dollars.

The New York Rangers rallied from two goals down to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 in the Winter Classic at Citizens Bank Park Monday. The hockey rink stretched from first base to t...

A county executive in the Catskills says New York City is acting like an "occupying nation" in communities within its upstate watershed, polluting waterways, flooding homes and paying too little in taxes as it maintains the purity of its water supply.