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Seven firefighters were injured during a 10-hour battle against a blaze that broke out in a building full of hazardous material in Jamaica, Queens.

JetBlue lost $30 million as a result of a flurry of flight cancellations stemming from the Dec. 26 blizzard.

 

Tunisia has formed a temporary government comprised of members of the party of the deposed president and opposition party leaders, until new elections can be held in the country, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

The Jets backed up the words of their coach Rex Ryan beating the Patriots 28-to-21 in Foxborough.

New York City Council members blasted transit officials during a Friday hearing on the city's response to last month's blizzard.

The public face behind the controversial Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, will be stepping down from his role. The non-profit organization Park51 announced Friday that Imam Abdallah Adhami will be replacing Rauf as senior advisor.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, at the hospital bedside of longtime friend Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, witnessed the Arizona lawmaker open her eyes for the first time since she was shot in the head in an apparent assassination attempt on Saturday.

Here is the latest transit information as of Wednesday evening.

The mayor said the city's response to the snowstorm Wednesday morning showed it had improved its clean-up and preparedness methods since the bungled handling of the Dec. 26 blizzard.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for New York City from 7 p.m. Tuesday until 6 p.m. Wednesday ahead of the storm expected to dump eight to 14 inches of s...

Three-quarters of the students at a Staten Island school stayed home on Monday after toxic PCBs were found in two classrooms. The PCBs apparently came from flourescent lightbulbs.

The New York City Council held a more than seven hour hearing on Monday to review response to last month's blizzard. The hearing began on Monday morning and ran into the early evening.

Members of Congress are increasing their vigilance at public gatherings following the shooting in Arizona on Saturday. Six people were killed and Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition, after a man opened fire in front of a supermarket in Tucson.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration will be questioned in detail on Monday for the first time about its admittedly poor response to the post-Christmas blizzard. 

Former New York Assemblyman Anthony Seminario, of Queens, has died in prison, at the age of 75.

President Barack Obama selected William Daley as his next White House chief of staff, according to the Associated Press.

The city's fire department has replaced its Emergency Medical Service Command chief, after more than 1,000 emergency calls got backlogged in last week's snowstorm.

Andrew Cuomo is now New York's governor and it will now be up to him to fix the state's growing fiscal crisis.  And it won't be easy. The state faces an estimated $9 billion budget deficit and a divided legislature, and, as Cuomo himself said in his inaugural speech, "The words 'government in Albany' have become a national punch line."

Military planes are flying food and other supplies toward the areas hit hardest by floods in Australia today and police are increasing patrols in evacuated regions amid reports of looting, reports The Associated Press.

Billy Taylor, the pianist and composer who became one of the nation's most ardent promoters of jazz, has died at the age of 89. His wife said he died of a heart attack Tuesday night in Manhattan.