Police say they believe they've recovered the body of a woman whose suicidal jump from a suburban New York City bridge echoed her stepfather's plunge from it 15 years ago after a grisly family murder. State Police Sgt. Todd Parent says the body ...

A county just north of New York City has been fined $12,000 for unsafe conditions at one of its nursing homes after a closet fell on a nun and killed her. The Department of Health says Rockland County must pay the state $10 ...

Rudy Giuliani is campaigning for congressional candidate Sandy Treadwell, a millionaire challenging freshman Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand. Sheldon Silver drops the idea of millionaire's tax at least for this year. A judge ruled, in favor of congressional candidate Chris Lee, that Democrat Alice Kryzan can't run on the Working Families Party line. Jon Powers, who dropped out of the ...

Ted Kennedy made a surprise appearance at the Senate, and received a standing ovation.
By holding his convention speech at the Denver arena, Barack Obama is risking setting expectations too high, writes Jonathan Alter. Congressional Quarterly changed its rating for the upstate congressional district represented by the retiring Jim Walsh to "leans Democrat."
John McCain calls late-term abortions "one of ...