Most NY school district budgets OK'd by voters
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- New Yorkers voting on school budgets for next year have approved nearly all of the proposals containing tax increases within state-imposed taxing limits....
Pa. Constitution Center to display Bill of Rights
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- One of the 12 surviving copies of the Bill of Rights that may have been pilfered from Pennsylvania in the late 1800s will be on display in Philadelphia for three years, beginning with the 225th anniversary next year of the drafting of the country's highest ideals....
NYC man gets prison for stripping church van
NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City man will spend two to four years in prison for stripping a van that was used to get elderly people to church....
Homeowners sue NY over $4.6M in flood damage
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Some property owners along the Mohawk River have sued the state Canal Corporation, claiming the agency failed to adequately prepare for the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011....
NY funeral for student accidentally shot by police
SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. (AP) -- They hesitated at first, but then they came from all over the church: young women in black shuffling out of the pews and down the side aisles to the altar, some of them sobbing....
Quinn leads NYC mayoral poll among Democrats
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new poll finds that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn leads candidates for the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor with 25 percent....
NYCLU analysis: Most stops in outer boroughs
NEW YORK (AP) -- Black and Hispanic men are more likely to be stopped in the Bronx and Brooklyn than other boroughs, according to an analysis of police street stop data released Wednesday by the New York Civil Liberties Union....
Country's most wanted deadbeat parent sentenced
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Long Island man once dubbed by prosecutors as the country's most wanted deadbeat parent for owing more than $1.2 million in child support has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison....
