Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck
FAIRPORT, Mich. (AP) -- A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan was not attached to a buried vessel as searchers had suspected, but still may have come from the elusive Griffin or some other ship, archaeologists said Wednesday....
Academy: 3 midshipmen charged with sexual assault
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The U.S. Naval Academy on Wednesday charged three midshipmen - all current or former football players - with sexually assaulting a female student at an off-campus house in Annapolis more than a year ago....
NYC teachers' union endorses Thompson for mayor
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's massive teachers' union backed former City Comptroller William Thompson for mayor Wednesday, giving a sizeable campaign boost to a onetime school board chief who made an unexpectedly strong showing in the last mayoral race....
AP PHOTOS: Astrodome, JFK terminal endangered
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places....
All but 2 school budgets pass in NY revote
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Nearly all New York school districts that put budgets up for new votes after first-round defeats won approval from voters, results released Wednesday showed, saving them from having to freeze taxes and make further cuts....
Cuomo, legislative leaders announce deals
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New Yorkers could see some new high-technology employers enjoying a decade of tax-free living and five Las Vegas-type casinos under deals announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders....
Feds: 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities accused two upstate New York men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel....
Father, son acquitted in NY of sex trafficking
NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge who heard prostitutes testify that a father-and-son pimp team made them feel like family cleared the two men of sex trafficking charges Wednesday....
