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The New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered the Christie Administration to restore $500 million in state education aid to the state's poorest districts.

Grammy Award-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks was found dead in his Manhattan apartment Sunday of an apparent suicide as he awaited trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women, police said.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood behind his plan to close 20 fire companies saying firefighting has advanced over the years, and that modern technology in building construction and the proliferation of sprinklers means the city will survive with fewer firefighters.

The embattled former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn has posted bail and is now in the custody of a security company.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg joked that if the doomsday predictions are correct about the apocalypse coming on Saturday, the city would suspend alternate side parking.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday praised the decision to take more than 30 U.S. cities off the list of urban centers receiving anti-terror funding.

Embattled former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was indicted by a grand jury for his alleged attack on a hotel maid, was granted $1 million bail and home detention by a judge Thursday.

The state legislature has unanimously approved a bill that supporters say could prevent a 12 percent rate hike in energy prices.

The Bloomberg Administration on Wednesday released the names of 20 fire companies the mayor is considering closing to help close the city's budget gap. The document given to the City Council lists eight closings in Brooklyn, four in Queens, three each in the Bronx and Manhattan and two in Staten Island.

After seven weeks of emotional and graphic testimony and three days of closing arguments, jury deliberations in the rape trial of two NYPD officers was underway on Wednesday.

The hotel maid who accused IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape told her lawyer she had no idea who the leader was until after the compliant was filed, her attorney said Wednesday.

In response to the alleged ticket-fixing scandal, the NYPD is creating a special unit to deal with the claims.

Elaine's, an Upper East Side institution, is shutting its doors.

A lawyer for one of the two men accused of plotting to attack New York City synagogues said he plans to question the strength of the case, which was brought under a rarely used state terrorism law.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says regular service has been restored on the B, D, F, N and R subway lines, following the derailment of one of the cars of a work train near Brooklyn's DeKalb Avenue station early Tuesday morning.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, entered Manhattan Federal Court Monday on charges of attempted rape, sex abuse, criminal sex act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching and is being been held without bail.

The Nasdaq and Intercontinental-Exchange are withdrawing their joint, $11 billion bid for the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. This comes after the companies realized the deal could violate antitrust laws.

Former state Senator Vincent Leibell, a longtime New York legislator, was sentenced to nearly two years in prison after he admitted to evading taxes and trying to influence a grand jury. 

Prosecutors are calling rebuttal witnesses to try to discredit claims made by an NYPD officer charged with raping a woman he was summoned to help.

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it had elected real estate developer Daniel Brodsky to be the new chairman of the Met's 40-member board.