NEW YORK (AP) -- George Steinbrenner's 35-year reign as boss of the New York Yankees ended Thursday when he passed control of baseball's most famous team to his youngest son, Hal....

ROUSES POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- New York lost nearly 14,000 private sector jobs in October, but the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in New York City and across the state dipped slightly to 5.7 percent....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The cost of commuting by bus or train in New York City would skyrocket next year under a plan unveiled Thursday by the nation's largest public transit system....

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- A grand jury has charged a Long Island teenager with murdering an Ecuadorean immigrant in a hate crime that unleashed a torrent of emotions and calls for stiff punishment against him and six schoolmates....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A notorious and wealthy arms dealer, long suspected of aiding militants in some of the world's bloodiest conflicts, was convicted Thursday of conspiring to sell weapons to informants who posed as arms suppliers for terrorists willing to kill Americans....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Tuition will increase at State University of New York colleges beginning in January....