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The defeat of pro-equality NJ Gov. Jon Corzine probably means that marriage equality in that state has to be approved swiftly--or delayed for years A Nov.

With New York drowning in deepening deficit spending and running out of cash to pay huge bills due next month, the Legislature met in special session Tuesday and put off what Gov.

Jeffry Picower, 67, a prominent philanthropist, drowned after suffering a heart attack in the swimming pool of his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion on Oct.

PABLO GORONDI Oil falls below $79 in European trade as Ida weakens to tropical storm ahead of Gulf Coast Oil prices swung around $79 a barrel Tuesday, as a storm threatening oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico weakened and investors eyed a volatile dollar.

" The State Department of Motor Vehicles Tuesday unveiled the new "Empire Gold" license plate which will be issued to most vehicles registered in the state beginning in April.

Get ready for another big name on Broadway. Denzel Washington plans to return to the New York stage next spring in a revival of August Wilson's "Fences." Producers Carole Shorenstein Hays and Scott Rudin say the play will open in April at a theater to be announced.

A Republican state assemblywoman who endorsed a Democrat after pulling out of a special congressional election in upstate New York earlier this month has resigned from her position as Assembly minority whip.

Another set of eyes. That is what the federal Environmental Protection Agency has been told it should provide in reviewing the hotly debated natural gas drilling technique called hydro-fracturing. It's a good move.

Doug Hoffman's narrow defeat in New York's 23rd Congressional District special election was one of few blemishes in a nearly flawless Election Day for Republicans.

Advocates for same-sex marriage are hitting New York's state capital hard, trying to sway the few votes needed for final legislative approval of the bill in a special session Tuesday.

Oil and gasoline futures rose today as a tropical storm heading into the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. dollar both weakened.

The NYT's take on marriage equality's chances this week: unclear . "Advocates on both sides of the issue lobbied senators over the weekend, but it was still unclear on Sunday whether the measure could attract the 32 votes needed in the State Senate for approval.

As New York gears up for a massive expansion of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, state officials have made a potentially troubling discovery about the wastewater created by the process: It's radioactive.

LONDON: Mumbai and Delhi are likely to witness a significant jump in economic growth along with other emerging markets and make it to the league of the world's wealthiest cities by 2025, according to a report.

The unemployment claims website for the New York State Department of Labor is having some technical problems today.

Those living in the country's biggest cities who hope to catch a glimpse of Sarah Palin while she is on her much-anticipated book tour may be disappointed: the former Alaska governor will instead hit a string of mid-size cities, many of which voted for her and John McCain last November.

Sentencing has been delayed for a 29-year-old Central New York man convicted of murdering his 11-year-old stepsister, who lived in filth and was starved by her parents.

"I'm trying to be ahead of the curve because things are changing in music," 50 told the audience at the AMC Loews Kips Bay 15 theater in Manhattan on Thursday.

A GUATEMMALAN man said by the US Government to have been one of the world's biggest cocaine dealers has been found guilty of conspiracy to import and sell the narcotic, prosecutors in New York say.

New Yorkers: Act now to support same sex marriage!!!! Category: GLBTA Posted on: November 6, 2009 5:35 PM, by Greg Laden New yorkers, call your state reps NOW.