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NYC, union miss deadline for teacher eval plan
A deadline has passed for New York City and a union representing the city's 75,000 teachers to agree on a teacher evaluation plan, putting the city at risk of losing up to $450 million in state aid and grants. Comment?
School bus strike in New York City enters 2nd day
A standoff between striking school bus drivers and aides looking for job protections and a city administration that says they just can't have it has the potential to go on for some time, observers said, as parents scrambled for a second day to figure out alternatives for tens of thousands of students who need to get to school. Comment?
Brooklyn resident wins Miss America crown
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A 23-year-old blonde from Brooklyn, N.Y., won the Miss America crown Saturday night after deftly dealing with a question about armed guards in schools and raising the issue of child sexual abuse in her contestant platform. Comment?
NY man mauled by tiger pleads not guilty
A man who jumped into a tiger den at the Bronx Zoo and survived a mauling has pleaded not guilty to trespassing charges. Comment?
NYC firm hit hard on 9/11 gives $10M in Sandy aid
The New York City financial services firm that lost the most workers in the Sept. Comment?
Judge: NYPD must halt suspicion-less Bronx stops
The New York City Police Department likely turned a blind eye to violations of the constitutional rights of thousands of individuals detained at private residential buildings in the Bronx in a stop-and-frisk program that's under assault in the courts, a federal judge said Tuesday. Comment?
Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effort Associated Press
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed six people and left her critically injured. Comment?
Estimated 1 million to ring in 2013 in NYC
Hours before New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Rockettes help usher in the new year, Times Square was teeming with revelers wearing plastic "2013" glasses and snapping photos. Comment?
NY plaintiff: Gay benefits 'bigger than marriage'
At age 83, Edith Windsor gets plenty of compliments for her courage to take on the federal government in a landmark case that has put attitudes about gay America squarely before the Supreme Court. 9 comments
Woman charged with murder in NY subway shove death
A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform into the path of a train because she has hated Muslims since Sept. Comment?
Judge grants American house arrest in Bolivia
A Bolivian judge on Tuesday released a New York businessman and granted him house arrest after he was jailed for 18 months without charge despite strong evidence that he was fleeced and extorted by corrupt prosecutors. Comment?
Obama signals action following school shooting
President Barack Obama is vowing to use "whatever power this office holds" to safeguard the nation's children, raising the prospect that he will pursue policy changes to stem gun violence in the wake of an elementary school massacre. Comment?
NYC artists seek help to scrub away Sandy's stains
Superstorm Sandy was not kind to the arts community. It not only upended paintings, equipment, tools and paper, turning them into tangled and soggy heaps, but also the livelihoods of hundreds of artists who have helped make the New York area a dynamic art capital. Comment?
NYC mayor hits brakes on pedicab rates decision
Mayor Michael Bloomberg hit the brakes Wednesday on a proposal to keep tourist-toting pedicabs from charging confusing, sometimes exorbitant rates. Comment?
NYC mayor hits brakes on pedicab rate decision
Mayor Michael Bloomberg hit the brakes Wednesday on a proposal to keep tourist-toting pedicabs from charging confusing, sometimes exorbitant rates. Comment?
Bolivia judges balk at setting NY man free
A two-judge appeals panel on Tuesday refused a plea to immediately release a New York businessman who has been jailed for 18 months without charge despite strong evidence he was fleeced and extorted by corrupt prosecutors. Comment?
LA man shot dead outside school near Central Park
A man fatally shot in the back of the head while walking outside a school near Central Park was from Los Angeles. Comment?
Numb, hopeful, families endure post-Sandy recovery
It's been more than a month since Sandy, the superstorm combining a hurricane, a nor'easter and surging full-moon tides, tore through the Northeast, leaving billions of dollars in damage in the New Jersey-New York-Connecticut corridor. 1 comment
Long-sealed Notorious B.I.G. autopsy released
An attorney for the family of Notorious B.I.G. said Friday it's ridiculous that Los Angeles police have not arrested anyone for the rapper's 1997 killing, which has returned to the spotlight after coroner's officials released a long-sealed autopsy report. Comment?
After Sandy, NYC pins housing hope on repairs
Facing Superstorm Sandy's daunting toll of wreckage and displacement in the nation's largest city, officials have put much of their hopes and hundreds of millions of dollars into jump-starting repairs to make homes livable. 3 comments