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Mandatory evacuations are underway in parts of New York and New Jersey as Hurricane Sandy barrels toward the East Coast — and transit officials in New York are preparing for a possi...

The NHL has canceled all its games through the end of November because of the labor dispute between owners and players.

The nanny who is suspected of killing two young children she cared for has worked for the Upper West Side family for about two years and had no known history of mental illness, police said Friday.

Before going to the NYPD’s promotion ceremony on Friday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly stopped by Bronx Lebanon Hospital to promote the off-duty police officer who was shot by a suspect in a Bronx robbery earlier this week.

Two children were found stabbed to death inside an Upper West Side apartment, and their nanny was found nearby with a self-inflicted wound, authorities said Thursday evening.

Come 2015, Nassau County will no longer have a professional sports team.

New Jersey's Supreme Court upheld a law Wednesday that critics say discriminates against infertile women — ruling that a woman uses a surrogate to give birth with someone else’s eggs cannot be considered the mother unless she adopts the child.

Much of the East Coast has a good chance of getting blasted by gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe even snow as early as Sunday by an unusual hybrid of hurricane and winter storm, forecasters said.

Former District Attorney Robert Morgenthau ripped the City Council’s proposal to create an NYPD monitor – one of a series of proposals aimed at increasing oversight over the department.

The off-duty officer who was shot by a suspect in a Bronx robbery had the bullet removed at a Bronx hospital on Thursday where he is surrounded by his family.

Greg Smith’s op-ed “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs" hit a nerve and drew passionate responses from Wall Street titans — but he says the message he was sending isn’t that Wall Street i...

A federal judge in New Jersey is blocking a group of more than 100 newspapers from getting access to voters as they leave polling places on Election Day.

The New York Islanders are moving to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. 

A New Jersey woman who worked for the NBA as a senior account executive filed a $3 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the league.

A former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. board member once widely respected for his business smarts has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for insider trading.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said the state has moved to revoke the licenses of the New England Compounding Center and three pharmacists there. He also has ordered the state pharmacy board that oversees similar companies to conduct surprise inspections and take other steps to tighten oversight.

The New York City Housing Authority estimates that 56,000 households are living in apartments that have too many rooms for the size of their families – but longtime residents bristle at the thought of downsizing.

The Brooklyn District Attorney said he dropped the charges against a homeless man arrested after a beating from police officers because there was "no case" against him.

The Museum of Modern Art is presenting a special six-month exhibition of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," which sold for nearly $120 million at auction in May.

The Transportation Security Administration says it is removing full body scanners from New York's airports and moving them to less busy airports.