Train service back on track after Conn. derailment
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Train service from New York to Boston was back on schedule Wednesday on one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways, five days after a derailment in Connecticut injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks....
Cuomo: Create tax-free zones around SUNY campuses
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- High-tech businesses from other states and abroad that move onto or next to college campuses in New York would operate free of all business, property and personal income taxes for 10 years under a proposal released Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo....
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....
Talk of lies, pride as Trump case goes to jury
CHICAGO (AP) -- The attorney for an 87-year-old woman who accuses Donald Trump of cheating her in a skyscraper condo deal told jurors in Chicago on Wednesday that he was personally repulsed by the "Apprentice" star whom he said lied on the witness stand....
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....
