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A major snowstorm forced pre-emptive school closures in New York City and grounded hundreds of flights on the East Coast for the second time in a week.

Last week, Lil Wayne commanded the spotlight and stage at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards -- but Tuesday, the multi-platinum rapper will find himself in a much less prestigious place: a jail cell at New York City's notorious Riker's Island.

The New Orleans rhymer, born Dwayne Carter, is due to be sentenced Tuesday in a Manhattan court room after pleading guilty in a gun possession case.

A letter and a speech may have doomed plans to bring the Sept. 11 terror trial to New York....

Officials say the Obama administration is considering moving the trial of the accused 9/11 mastermind out of lower Manhattan.

The uncle of a Colorado airport driver charged in a terror plot against New York City has been indicted, two law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

A significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into " The Actor " and tore it, The Metropolitan Museum of Art said.

Passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 could soon have a unique souvenir from their harrowing flight that ended in New York's Hudson River -- although it would be quite a large one.

Police say a man fatally shot his 9-year-old daughter and her baby sitter in a New York City suburb.

The crystal ball has dropped and confetti has showered the crowd of hundreds of thousands of revelers in Times Square who are greeting 2010 with cheers.

Tavern on the Green, once America's highest-grossing restaurant, is singing its culinary swan song.