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A New Jersey couple are in a rip-roaring New York state of mind -- as in a possible lawsuit -- after they claimed they were roughed up and handcuffed by security guards during last Friday's Billy Joel concert at Shea Stadium.

The panel that charged former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's aides with breaking the law in a political scandal may investigate if Spitzer was behind a pattern of obstacles that delayed the initial probe.

A 10-year-old Staten Island boy says police hurt his arm by handcuffing him after he hit a school bus bully on the neck with a bean.

A former Haitian paramilitary leader who's been branded a ruthless killer by human rights groups was convicted Friday of helping hatch a mortgage fraud scheme that cheated lenders out of $1.7 million.

Barbara Ann Teer, who founded the National Black Theater in Harlem, has died.

The body of a 16-year-old Queens girl who was apparently swept away by a strong current while swimming has been found.

The number of bidders for Starrett City, the country's largest federally-subsidized housing development, is down to four.

New Yorkers have long been going to see "Shakespeare in the Park." Now they can see Shakespeare on the subway.

An ex-convict was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the sadistic, 19-hour rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student.

Internal Affairs investigators are still trying to find a video camera in Harlem that may have captured who put the head of a black doll on an unmarked police car's antenna, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Thursday.

A Wantagh High School teacher broke her promise to a stay away from her teenage lover, and now should serve the maximum sentence for having sex with him, a Nassau prosecutor said Thursday.

A New York publisher is suing rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, saying they were paid advances for books they never delivered.

It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued banking giant UBS on Thursday, accusing the company of fraudulently promoting tens of billions of dollars of auction-rate securities as safe when it knew a crisis was brewing.

A naturalized U.S. citizen must face trial on a charge of providing material support to an Iranian terrorist organization she's accused of helping to lead, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

43-year-old man was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital Thursday night after being stabbed on the corner of 28th Street and Broadway.

Starting Sunday, a number of subway lines will get increased service to relieve overcrowding. The expansions were paid for by cuts in other areas of Transit's budget. Among the lines getting increases are:

The New York Police Department and the World Trade Center site's owner have worked out a security agreement on how to best protect ground zero against terrorism.

You could cut the tension in the Manhattan Fencing Center with a saber.