Trial of ex-P&G, Goldman board member starts in NY
NEW YORK (AP) -- The July 29, 2008, phone call between two titans of Wall Street began with the old friends exchanging mild pleasantries, but then quickly turned serious and - by the government's account - criminal....
Black undercount found in 1940 census records
NEW YORK (AP) -- It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon....
APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending....
Ultra-Orthodox hold large NYC meeting on Net risks
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a rally Sunday at the New York Mets' stadium on the dangers of the Internet and how to use modern technology in a religiously responsible way....
NY politicians, parents denounce al-Megrahi
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Sen. Charles Schumer says it's a "grave injustice" that the Libyan man convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was allowed to die in freedom rather than behind bars....
For NY farmers, fracking means salvation _ or ruin
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out of New York....
Celebration toasts new Vt.-NY bridge across lake
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Thousands of people marched across the new $76 million Lake Champlain bridge while others floated in vessels below during a party that spanned Vermont and New York state lines to celebrate its grand re-opening....
