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"We won't be appealing the sentence," Madoff's lawyer, Ira Sorkin, said Thursday.

New York Senate Republicans are planning to debate hundreds of noncontroversial bills in retaliation for what they say was a broken deal to pass reforms.Less than 30 minutes into the legislative session, Republicans began setting aside every bill for debate - which could take two hours per bill.Republican Leader Sen.

THIS IS A FOX TWENTY THREE NEW SPECIAL REPORT GOOD MORNING I 'M MORE FAGAN THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR OUR CONTINUING COVERAGE HERE ON FOX TWENTY THREE OF THE STATE SENATE STALEMATE IN JUST A MOMENT WE 'LL BE HEARING FROM GOVERNOR PATTERSON AND RICHARD RAVITCH WHO HE HAS APPOINTED AS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE GOVERNOR ...

A drunken teenager who couldn't get through to a pizza delivery service instead phoned the White House and told them there was a bomb in New York City.

"The use of Babylon as a military base was a grave encroachment on this internationally known archaeological site," said a report which the U.N. cultural agency presented in Paris.

High court nominee Sonia Sotomayor typically handed out tougher prison sentences than her colleagues in the federal courthouse in Manhattan, especially to white-collar criminals, a new study says.

In this May 29, 2009 file photo, an oil rig is seen at sunset in the desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain.

Treasury officials said the program will try to relieve banks of up to $40 billion worth of these investments - complex securities whose value plummeted along with real estate prices.

Gov. David Paterson will address New Yorkers this afternoon. Gov. David Paterson plans to take to the TV airwaves to speak to New Yorkers about the monthlong standoff in the state Senate.

In the following press release Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that a Texas man has been indicted on grand larceny and other charges for allegedly using a fraudulent power of attorney to transfer his elderly aunt's Corona house to himself and taking two mortgages out on the property.

From left, State Sens. Dean Skelos John Sampson , and Pedro Espada leave the governor's office after negotiations at the Capitol.

When village officers began investigating a local drug trafficking situation, they had no idea they would be helping bring down a multi-million dollar drug ring.

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Michael Jackson was eulogized in words and song Tuesday by an all-star list of musicians, athletes and other celebrities during a mournful ceremony in downtown Los Angeles, with the most poignant moment delivered by his sobbing 11-year-old daughter.

The King of Pop, says the Queen of Soul, never put on royal airs. The Michael Jackson that Aretha Franklin knew was unfailingly sweet, courteous and, above all, respectful.

A new book will allege that Jacqueline Kennedy -- later Jacqueline Onassis -- had a four-year affair with the brother of assassinated US President John F. Kennedy that began shortly after the president died, a story in Monday's New York Post avers.

Republicans and Democrats met for another "do-nothing" session at the State Capitol Monday, meaning there is still no fix to the stalemate at the Senate.

NEW YORK - A trove of letters to one of baseball's founding fathers has been removed from an upcoming auction while the FBI investigates whether they were among items stolen from the New York Public Library years ago.

The Supreme Court heard five environmental law cases in the term that ended Monday, and environmental groups lost every time.