As President Obama prepares to head to New York to deliver the keynote speech at the NAACP's centennial gala Thursday, a lower East Side teen is gearing up to meet her idol.

New Yorkers opened their hearts and wallets on Sunday for the North Carolina woman who saved a five-legged puppy from a Coney Island freak show as they hailed the big-hearted animal lover as a hero.

Days after a Whole Foods spokeswoman told the Daily News the chain was calling off plans to open a store along the polluted Gowanus Canal, officials are now saying they will build on the toxic site - someday.

The mayors of two major New Jersey cities and an assemblyman are under arrest Thursday as part of a major corruption and international money laundering conspiracy probe.

Top-ranking Jersey politicians and dozens of others there and in Brooklyn - including five rabbis - were collared Thursday in an extensive, years long corruption probe, authorities said.

A two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation stretching from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn to Israel and Switzerland culminated in charges against 44 people on Thursday, including three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen...

Kayla Rosenblum sat upright and poised as she breezed through the shapes and numbers, a leopard-patterned finger puppet resting next to her for moral support.

Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big......

Recently, NPCA scored a landmark victory in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which invalidated a land exchange needed to proceed with the massive Eagle Mountain landfill--a proposed garbage dump surrounded on three sides by Joshua Tree National Par

The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods, according to a report issued Tuesday by health