Judge Jonathan Lippman has helped turn the Court of Appeals into a scrappier, more divided and more liberal panel, its rulings and court statistics show.
Jonathan Lippman, who heads the State Court of Appeals, has been happy to win split decisions, in contrast to his predecessor, who prized unanimity.
A jury is still deliberating whether the leading concrete testing company in New York, Testwell Labs, its owner and its vice president are guilty of enterprise corruption.
The New York Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center can jump-start investigations with identifying data like tattoos, teeth and birthmarks.
David W. Johnson is described as Gov. David A. Paterson’s closest confidant, despite arrests in his past and disputes with women that drew the police.
The Justice Department said that it did not find sufficient evidence that Sean Bell and two other men had had their constitutional rights willfully denied.
The banker Vincent Scott Morgan is running against his former boss for the Democratic nomination in the 15th Congressional District.
A police officer is accused of using his baton to brutalize a man, and two officers are charged with hushing it up.
The weather, or the mere prospect of weather, has become the top story on local newscasts.
Prosecutors wanted Steven Mandala, accused of lying to get a job at Merrill Lynch, to turn over his Ferrari as a condition of bail, but a judge said no.
Fresh off a victorious effort to persuade the federal government to move the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed trial from New York City, the Real Estate Board of New York has turned its attention to the missing link in the No. 7 line.
With so much of the garment industry moving overseas, theater and arts groups have been filling vacancies in the garment district.
For decades, residents of two tiny Queens neighborhoods near Kennedy Airport have flushed their toilets right into the bay. Those days are on their way out.
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Duane Reade, the chain with the citycentric slogan - "Your city. Your drugstore" - sold itself to Walgreen, another chain that also started with a single store.
Prosecutors announced a $50,000 bail agreement in the case against the father of Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado shuttle-bus driver accused of terrorism. The father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, is charged with obstructing the investigation of his son.
Several Web sites, sometimes staffed by those who lost jobs at newspapers, offer local news, from city hall to the neighborhoods.
New York has 13,000 fewer inmates today than it did in 1999, when the prison population was at its peak, but closing prisons is even harder than closing hospitals.
A Scottish terrier named Sadie, the favorite, won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
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The 134th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show began on Monday at Madison Square Garden, with awards handed out for best hound, toy, nonsporting and herding.
Young New Yorkers training for jobs in landscaping, horticulture and arboriculture learn to work out on a limb.
Images from the last day of New York Fashion Week, behind the curtains and on the runways.
Kingsbridge, in the northwest Bronx, has kept a small-town character despite many changes.
Since 1912, the fund has provided direct assistance to children, families and the elderly in New York.
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