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Mayor Bill de Blasio has tough decisions on how to continue reforming the juvenile justice system — and advocates are hopeful about this moment of mayoral transition.

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Cheers in Times Square, Harlem and Chicago at 11PM on November 4, as all the networks project Barack Obama the President-elect of the United States of America.

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The state trooper who was driving Governor Corzine during his near-fatal car accident can continue driving the governor. But Trooper Robert Rasinski is still facing an unpaid suspension for his role in the crash.

Neither the state Attorney General's office nor the state police would say ...

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Plans for a parking garage in downtown Brooklyn are threatening what some historians believe were stops along the underground railroad. The seven houses along Duffield and Gold Streets have sub-basement tunnels connecting them. The owners claim they were "safe houses" along the underground railroad.

REPORTER: But ...

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The dispute that stalled Governor Corzine's nomination of state Attorney General Stuart Rabner as state Supreme Court chief justice has been resolved.

Senate consideration of the nomination had been delayed as Senator Nia Gill, a Democrat from Essex, used her unwritten authority to block nominations of ...

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The city says the number of people on welfare continues to decline. As of March more than 402,000 people had public assistance cases - that's the lowest the welfare rolls have been since 1964.

Ten years ago, public assistance cases peaked at over a million. The ...