Car mows down roadside dinosaurs on Long Island
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island man denies a police claim that he was intoxicated when his car smashed into about a dozen roadside dinosaurs....
Search for Hoffa mystery endures for decades
Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance almost 40 years ago has been the stuff of urban legend, prompting numerous theories about what happened to the former Teamsters leader....
FBI hunt for Jimmy Hoffa's remains enters 3rd day
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ago....
AP Source: Cuomo, NY leaders reach deal on casinos
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Four upstate casinos and separate bills on a women's rights package including an abortion proposal that appeared to have been blocked in the Senate were part of a late-session deal, according to a senior administration official....
Ex-Marine to be reunited with bomb dog in RI
SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island state police will hold a ceremony this week that will reunite a retired Marine injured in an explosion in Afghanistan with the bomb-detecting dog he used to command....
NY GOPer buying home of US rep. he called chicken
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A Republican county official who once called a central New York congressman a "chicken" for skipping a televised debate is buying the Democratic lawmaker's suburban Syracuse home....
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....
Man pleads not guilty in NYC hate-crime shooting
NEW YORK (AP) -- A man accused of fatally shooting a gay man walking with a companion in New York City's Greenwich Village afterward claimed that he opened fire because the victim "thought he was tough in front of his bitch," prosecutors said in court papers Tuesday....