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Share + Nov 7, 2009 4:00 pm US/Eastern NEW YORK 1 of 1 The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.

Mariah Carey, left, plays a social worker, right, in the new film "Precious." You'd be forgiven for not recognizing Mariah Carey in her role as a dowdy welfare caseworker in the urban drama "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." The legendarily high-maintenance pop diva underwent a soup-to-nuts physical transformation, checking her ...

The York Daily Record obtained a list Thursday of the nearly 80 men cited in connection with a sex sting into illicit behavior at two York County parks since August.

Harley-Davidson released a statement this afternoon saying it has narrowed its list of alternative sites to possibly move York operations to Kentucky.

Contractor Sam Torres, center, checks out the damage to the home on the 1000 block of East Princess Street as firefighters prepare to leave the property after fighting the blaze early Thursday, Nov.

The central Pennsylvania city of York has elected its first black mayor, 40 years after violent race riots led to the death of a white police officer and a black woman.

A supporter holds up York mayoral candidate Kim Bracey's arm in victory Tuesday as she heads in to Sam & Tony's to make her acceptance speech.

A York City man who struck and killed an Adams County police officer in 2008 must spend at least 16 months in state prison, his prosecutor said.

Police today charged a York man with assault in a billiards parlor in Manheim Township, police said.

The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports.com was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison, ending a lengthy investigation and prosecution into one of the world's largest offshore sports gambling companies.

East Market Street was more backed up than usual this Monday afternoon. "I've been sitting here for 10 minutes," Pat Gillespie said from behind the wheel of his SUV.

A New York meat company has recalled almost 546,000 pounds of ground beef because, according to health officials, contaminated meat has caused illness and one death.

The Pennsylvania State Police in York and the York County DUI Task Force hold a sobriety checkpoint on Halloween night and arrested drivers for numerous violations in West Manchester Township, in the area of State Route 30 and State Route 116.

The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, where health-care legislation still languishes, but in Virginia, New Jersey and northern New York state, where President Barack Obama's endorsements of threatened Democratic candidates will test his political clout a year after his own election.

For more than a decade, state Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno was a top power broker in New York.

There is "buzz" and controversy over Dan Brown's newest novel, "The Lost Symbol." Written by the author of "The Da Vinci Code" -- reportedly 80 million copies sold -- the initial run for "The Lost Symbol" is six million copies.

The U.S.S. New York, the naval ship forged from World Trade Center steel, pulled out of its berth in Virginia today, beginning a five-day journey toward to its namesake city, where it will be formally commissioned in the Navy Fleet next week.

Approaching York, PA from the north on Interstate 83, you'll drive by the weirdest statue in York - the 13 foot high painted bronze statue at York Barbell's factory and the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame.

It was a story that stirred panic in many West Manchester Mall shoppers- a woman stopping to give a man directions was pulled from her car, robbed, beaten, and stabbed several times in an abandoned parking lot last Wednesday afternoon, and her attacker ran towards the mall.

A 79-year-old York woman faces charges in connection with the crash that claimed the life of 11-year-old Derek Johnson II.