Report: Syracuse chief to lead Rutgers-Newark
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Rutgers University is set to announce a new chancellor for its Newark campus who had her own problems with a basketball program....
$40M lawsuit filed against NYC pharmacist
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Lebanese tourist has filed a $40 million lawsuit against a drugstore pharmacist who allegedly sexually assaulted her at the Manhattan store....
NY man gets 8 years for sexually abusing girl
NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- A Rockland County man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing a girl for four years....
Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can't afford to bid on them...
NYC heir, 89, to hear whether he'll go to prison
NEW YORK (AP) -- An 89-year-old heir could end up in prison after a court date on his 11th-hour bid for a new trial in a case that shook New York society....
NY baseball great's daughter catches falling baby
NEW YORK (AP) -- The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre made a quick-thinking save Wednesday when she caught a baby who had tumbled off of a second-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, the baseball great has confirmed....
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....
NY cops: 'Probable' ID for remains found upstate
WOODBURY, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities say it's "very probable" that the skeletal human remains found near a Hudson Valley shopping center are those of a 78-year-old New York City woman reported missing five years ago....
Jury deliberations start in NY teen's murder trial
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Jury deliberations are set to resume in the trial of a teenager charged with killing his father and two younger brothers by setting the family's suburban Rochester home on fire in December 2011....
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....
