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The intelligence bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives includes a ban on a new policy about which words officials should use to describe terrorists.

New York City police are checking reports of a black doll's head seen on an unmarked police car antenna in Harlem, a state senator says.

On an occasional evening at the kitchen table in Brooklyn, N.Y., Victoria Morey has been known to sit down with her 9-year-old son and do something she's not supposed to.

Many drug addicts, problem gamblers and alcoholics may find it harder to kick their habits in New York now that the state has become the first in the country to ban smoking at all recovery centers.

Sonic Youth's show on August 30 will be the site's last before construction work begins.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money and pouring $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.

The perpetually congested streets of Brooklyn, with all manner of vehicles clogging the streets, pose a hazard to all pedestrians - leaving the elderly and young especially vulnerable to accidents.

Police have arrested a Brooklyn man in a hit-and-run car accident that left a 9-year-old girl critically injured.

Ads promoting Islam are to be placed on New York subway cars in September, but a U.S. congressman finds people sponsoring the messages unacceptable.

A retired police sergeant whose erratic behavior frightened his family into committing him to a psychiatric hospital fled the ward Tuesday and was killed by officers during a gun battle outside his home.

Signs in Flushing. Mayor Bloomberg has ordered the city government to offer services in New York's six most spoken languages.

Federal prosecutors have disbanded their criminal investigation into the financial dealings of the Rev.

The 64-year-old woman known as "Grandma" who was arrested in the fatal screwdriver stabbing of a Staten Island man was to be arraigned today in Stapleton Criminal Court after she was picked up by police at a ...

Two Brooklyn cultural organizations will expand by moving into the newly restored historic theater in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District in Fort Greene.

A Staten Island mom is learning her own lesson after stealing a teacher's purse during her son's first-grade graduation ceremony: Crime doesn't pay.

One person has died and two people were injured, one critically and the other seriously, following an accident involving a motorcycle and a car, News 4 New York has learned.

Miss Brooklyn is this year's Miss New York. She's from Virginia -- and lives in Manhattan.

On a respirator" WIDTH="290" alt=""> Last updated: 4:51 am July 21, 2008 Posted: 4:42 am July 21, 2008 A heartless hit-and-run driver left a 9-year-old Brooklyn girl fighting for her life, cops said yesterday.

Hamburgers and hot dogs are the classic cookout foods. While hamburgers are most often homemade, and the number of recipes is beyond counting, hot dogs are a bit tougher to make in the average kitchen.

Barry Manilow 's publicist says the Brooklyn, N.Y.-born singer's recent weight loss is not due to illness, as rumors have suggested.