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A labor dispute threatening to spoil this weekend’s Tony Awards was averted at the last minute when the stagehand’s union and the event’s producers came to an agreement over staffing.

According to a message posted on the Newark Public Schools Web site, schools in Newark will close at 1 p.m. on Thursday due to the extreme heat.

The National Weather Service said it was about 92 degrees in Central Park on Wednesday afternoon. But it felt a few degrees warmer with the humidity.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed three bills Tuesday, which include increasing the maximum age of firefighters exam applicants, legislation on bias harassment at public institutions and a bill requiring the reporting of when residents enter temporary city emergency housing.

The latest search for human remains on a barrier island south of Long Island turned up no new evidence Tuesday, investigators said.

Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he was the one responsible for sending a lewd photo of himself to a college student on Twitter but stopped short of resigning from his post a week after the embattled politician first drew fire for the image.

Ex-New York Giants star and Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was released from prison Monday after nearly two years behind bars for a gun charge.

An investigation has uncovered no evidence that sanitation workers intentionally sabotaged snow removal efforts to protest budget cuts during the blizzard in December.

Firefighter unions fuming over the proposed closure of 20 fire companies as a budget-cutting measure marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to a rally outside of City Hall on Friday. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has defended the decision, pointing to decreased response times and fewer fire deaths. The city has a month to finalize its budget.

The driver behind the wheel of the Chinatown-bound bus when it crashed in Virginia on Tuesday and killed four passengers was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Prosecutors are continuing to investigate the case against an Egyptian businessman accused of sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper.

Audience members at a raucous public meeting on safety at Indian Point nuclear plant Thursday night heckled officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — calling the federal officials "Liars!" and "lap dogs!"

Governor Chris Christie will reimburse New Jersey for using a state police helicopter twice to see his son's baseball games, according to a spokesperson for the governor.

A city police detective, two firefighters and a funeral director nicknamed "The Undertaker" were among 15 people arrested early Thursday in connection to a high-stakes gambling ring on Staten Island.

Former New York Times investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief Jill Abramson will take over as the newspaper's executive editor following the departure of Bill Keller, who will become a full-time writer, the Times announced Thursday. 

New York Rep. Anthony Weiner has denied that he sent a lewd photo to a Seattle college student from his Twitter account but said Wednesday he can't "say with certitude" the photo showing a man in his underwear from the waist down is not him.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for New York City and parts of Northern New Jersey and Connecticut through 8 p.m. tonight. 

Shark sightings off a Hamptons beach forced authorities to ban swimming until further notice, officials said.

PHOTOS. Sarah Palin visited the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on Wednesday as part of her tour of East Coast historic sites.

The woman at the center of the NYPD rape trial broke her silence for the first time since the jury acquitted the two officers of rape last week to say she was "devastated" by the verdict.