1010 WINS New York

A New York appeals court says property owners can't be forced to give up about a tenth of the land Columbia University wants for a major expansion. Full Story »

Police in New Jersey believe they've found the body of a New York boater who went missing last month. Full Story »

Police are looking for four people who are wanted in connection with a jewelry store robbery in Queens. The four suspects, two of them armed, held-up Gold Fashion Jewelry located at 2125 Mott Ave on November 28, according to police. Full Story »

An executive with knowledge of the negotiations says ABC News has offered George Stephanopoulos the job of "Good Morning America" co-anchor, although ABC's political expert hasn't said he will take it. Full Story »

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has hit back at City Hall with a profanity for accusing him of squirreling away money to avoid fiscal scrutiny. Read Morgenthau's statement inside.  AUDIO Full Story »

Gov.-elect Chris Christie has chosen a Pfizer executive and former state legislator to be his chief of staff. Full Story »

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's 2010 preliminary budget calls for 150 job cuts and investing $3.1 billion on capital projects including the World Trade Center. Full Story »

Busloads of mourners attended a memorial service for Jami Erlich, a popular Suffern elementary school gym teacher who was murdered on Sunday. The service was held at Beth Am Temple in Pearl River. Full Story »

With the holidays nearing, the post office has two new Christmas stamps and the usual array of postage for other holidays available. Full Story »

"Up in the Air" is the National Board of Review's pick for best film of the year. Full Story »

Search warrants have been served at Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. in connection with an Illinois man accused of secretly recording nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. Full Story »

President Barack Obama challenged an assortment of leading business and union leaders and academics on Thursday to help him come up with innovative ideas for putting millions of Americans back to work, saying he wants the "biggest bang for the buck." Full Story »

New York City's American Museum of Natural History has been given the green light to offer graduate degrees in comparative biology. Full Story »

Police say a grocery store worker was shot and killed Wednesday night during a botched robbery attempt in Newark. Full Story »

The newest members of New Jersey's Hall of Fame include actors Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito, musicians Les Paul and Count Basie, and authors Philip Roth and Judy Blume. Full Story »

The head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week's White House state dinner was an aberration and President Barack Obama was never at risk. Mark Sullivan said three uniformed officers have been put on administrative leave. Full Story »

Authorities say 21 people have been charged in a drug trafficking ring that brought cocaine from New York City and sold it in the Rochester and Finger Lakes regions. Full Story »

When a teenage Edgar Allan Poe moved to Boston to find work in 1827, he was eager to launch his literary career, re-establish his roots in the city of his birth and distance himself from his foster father in Richmond, Va. Full Story »

New York City firefighters are making their annual trek to the Gulf Coast to deliver toys to needy children. Full Story »

New York City police say a minister has been arrested on charges of raping a teenage relative. Full Story »

Let's take a stroll down television memory lane and take a look at what the Top 10 Most Watched Episodes of the Decade were according to the Hollywood Reporter. Full Story »

A new report says New York City's fiscal outlook isn't as bad as it looked last spring. Full Story »

The long-troubled New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. says it plans bankruptcy action, and is threatening to close unless the state Legislature changes racing laws to help it become profitable. Full Story »

A gas leak has forced the evacuation of 200 people at a school for the disabled in Brooklyn. Full Story »

A suburban New York prosecutor says undercover buys from dealers as young as 16 have revealed widespread peddling of drugs from parents' medicine cabinets. Full Story »