Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outrage
NEW YORK (AP) -- A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood....
With Weiner, NYC mayor race takes on new dynamic
NEW YORK (AP) -- However Anthony Weiner does when the polls close, he's certain to add drama to the most competitive New York City mayor's race in more than a decade....
Lawsuit filed against state of Conn. over gun law
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A group of Connecticut organizations that support gun rights, pistol permit holders and gun sellers filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials, arguing the state's new gun control law violates their constitutional rights....
Capital defender requested in NY rape, murder
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The attorney for a man charged with raping a 10-year-old girl and killing her mother in an upstate New York carjacking wants to add an expert on death penalty cases to the defense team in case federal prosecutors bring more charges and seek his execution....
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....
