NY judge: Boeheim slander suit moving to Syracuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- The defamation lawsuit filed by two former ball boys against Syracuse University and head basketball coach Jim Boeheim will be heard in Syracuse, a judge ruled Wednesday....
Strauss-Kahn questioned in France for 2nd day
PARIS (AP) -- French police interrogated former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for a second day Wednesday in a probe into a suspected hotel prostitution ring in France and Belgium....
American war reporter Marie Colvin killed in Syria
LONDON (AP) -- She was instantly recognizable for the eye patch that hid a shrapnel injury - a testament to Marie Colvin's courage, which took her behind the front lines of the world's deadliest conflicts to write about the suffering of individuals trapped in war....
Wounded vets regain bit of camaraderie in kitchen
HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Julio Gerena is in a wheelchair, his long career in the U.S. Navy and Army forever behind him. But the 52-year-old recaptured some of the old military camaraderie while peeling potatoes and chopping cilantro in a crowded kitchen....
Ex-director: Local NJ police didn't spy on Muslims
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A former police director of New Jersey's largest city says no local officers were used in a spying operation that monitored and catalogued his city's Muslim neighborhoods....
NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark....
Ejected passenger dragged by NY Amtrak train dies
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities in upstate New York are investigating the death of an Amtrak passenger apparently dragged by a train after being kicked off for drunkenness....
NY law enforcers push for expanded DNA database
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Representatives from nearly every law enforcement agency in western New York are presenting a united front in support of expanding the state's DNA databank to include samples from everyone convicted of any crime....
Despite no ice, Buffalo's ice boom breaks again
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The floating barrier that keeps large chunks of Lake Erie ice from entering the Niagara River at Buffalo has broken several times this winter, but ice isn't the culprit....
