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A 10-year-old boy had less than two minutes to escape the family minivan after his distraught mother plunged the vehicle into the Hudson River on Tuesday night killing herself and three of her children, an official said.

President Barack Obama proposed lowering the nation's future deficits by $4 trillion over the next 12 years through lower spending in health care programs and tax increases.

A state education panel is recommending that Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott be granted a waiver to serve as the new city schools chancellor.

Sidney Harman, the stereo pioneer who late in life bought Newsweek and was at its helm during the newsweekly's merger with The Daily Beast, died Tuesday in Washington, D.C. He was 92.

The 10 sets of remains found along a remote Long Island highway are not linked to the deaths of four Atlantic City prostitutes in 2006, a New York police official said Wednesday.

Japan has raised the level of the disaster at its nuclear power plant to a 7. Although that's the same level as the Chernobyl disaster, according to The Associated Press Japanese officials say Fukushima has leaked a tenth of the radiation released at Chernobyl.

The man accused of killing four people and wounding four others in a 28-hour stabbing spree pleaded not guilty to murder charges in Brooklyn court on Tuesday.

New York state Senator Carl Kruger pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he accepted $1 million in bribes in a federal corruption case.

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum will be the future home of the space shuttle Enterprise, a prototype shuttle used for tests that never went into space.

Katie Couric, saying she's uncertain of her future plans, refused to confirm reports that she is leaving the CBS "Evening News" during an interview with WNYC's Leonard Lopate on Tuesday.

The two jets that were involved in a minor collision on the runway at John F. Kennedy Airport last night will be inspected to determine the extent of their damage, officials said.

Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Ivory Coast, has been arrested, after authorities forced their way into the bunker where he's secluded himself for the past several days and apprehended him on Monday.

A loyal employee for a hedge fund founder charged in an insider trading case said his ex-boss was a hard-charging businessman.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's already-high approval rating got a boost in the wake of the budget deal, a new poll shows. The governor, who marked his 100th day in office on Sunday, had his...

The boyfriend of a 23-year-old Greenwich, Conn., woman who was stabbed to death over the weekend in the Lower East Side apartment they shared was charged with her murder on Monday.

Authorities found what they suspect are human remains in two more locations Monday after officials expanded their search for evidence from Suffolk to nearby Nassau County.

Earlier this month, New York Congressman Peter King held a hearing in Washington on the "Muslim radicalization in the U.S.," which drew fiery protests and condemnation. On Friday, another New York politician held a similar hearing in Manhattan.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended outgoing Schools Chancellor Cathie Black a day after he announced she would be leaving the post after only three months.

Cathie Black isn't the only person announcing a departure.

The Bronx Zoo cobra that drew national attention after it went missing from its habitat will be named Mia.