RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York City police instructor has admitted he shot and killed his fiancee, also an NYPD officer, inside their Long Island home in September 2007....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77....

NEW YORK (AP) -- With a pair of arrests, state prosecutors sent a warning Wednesday to the many New York City restaurants that cook their books in order to hide the pay and hours of immigrant workers....

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- The family of a worker trampled to death in a "Black Friday" crush of bargain hunters at a Long Island Wal-Mart store filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming store ads offering deep discounts "created an atmosphere of competition and anxiety" that led to "crowd craze."...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Republican party Chairman Joseph Mondello says the GOP in the increasingly Democratic state will rebound from losses in the November elections....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- More than two months after New York officials in a Brooklyn armory promised to rush relief to storm-torn Haiti, Gov. David Paterson is expediting the goods along with an apology....