1010 WINS New York

NJ Transit's board on Wednesday unanimously approved the first tunneling contract for an $8.7 billion rail tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan. Full Story »

A New Yorker who spent more than four hours trapped in an 18-foot hole while installing a cesspool is in satisfactory condition and is heading home. Full Story »

Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages. Full Story »

New York City is expected to pass legislation intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, which are the city's largest source of heat-trapping gases. Full Story »

A raunchy scandal has hit a Brooklyn high school after the Daily News reports two Romance language teachers were caught "undressed" in an empty classroom. Full Story »

Gatorade is discontinuing its Tiger Woods drink but says it made the decision before the golfer's car accident led to a media firestorm surrounding his personal life. Full Story »

Prosecutors don't understand how a fugitive wanted in New Jersey worked for the Homeland Security Department in Georgia despite a nationwide alert for her arrest. Full Story »

New York City police have arrested the parents of an 11-month-old boy who died after having difficulty breathing. Full Story »

An arrest has been made in the strangulation death of a New York City woman whose body was found on Long Island. Full Story »

A major New York concrete testing firm is going on trial on criminal charges. It's accused of faking results for projects including ground zero's signature tower and the new Yankee Stadium. Full Story »

A son of the late Connecticut Congressman Stewart McKinney has returned to his teaching job in Bridgeport after being arrested on drunken driving and gun charges. Full Story »

"The Boss'' backs gay marriage in the Garden State. Full Story »

The Pink Tea Cup, a fixture in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood for more than five decades, has announced it is closing. Full Story »

Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City will make him "as important or more important than Osama bin Laden.'' Full Story »

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A holy cow perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine? A calf born at a dairy farm in Sterling last week has a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross. Full Story »

Police say a Franklin man dressed up as his mother in an attempt to withdraw money from her bank account. Full Story »

A 1948 print of Ansel Adams' iconic photograph, "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico," has sold for $360,000 at an auction in New York City. Full Story »

Former New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno has quit his consulting job following his conviction on two corruption counts in federal court. Full Story »

New Jersey Gov.-elect Chris Christie is taking a more low-key approach to his inauguration than some of his predecessors. Full Story »

A woman who says she was duped by an Internet employment notice has been found bound with duct tape at a motel in central New York after vanishing for two days. Full Story »

Hours after a proposal allowing same-sex couples to marry survived its first legislative hurdle in New Jersey, gay rights supporters were working behind the scenes to get the bill approved in the Senate. Full Story »

Police in New York say the death of an infant in her father's arms appears to be accidental, but they suspect the man may have been drinking or using drugs. Full Story »

A police raid in Chinatown Tuesday morning dealt a blow to an alleged counterfeit ring. Full Story »

A woman was found stabbed to death and her infant son critically wounded inside their Jersey City apartment Tuesday, police said.  Photo/Steve Sandberg AUDIO Full Story »