Sony unveiled new flat-screen LCD televisions that are thinner and display sharper images than before as it gears up for what is expected to be another tough holiday season.

Jerry Seinfeld insisted yesterday he ought to be the master of his own comic domain. Seinfeld didn't slander the woman who accused his wife of ripping off her cookbook, he said in legal papers filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court. He was...

A Connecticut man mocked by a Banana Republic saleswoman got his revenge the creepy way: making 891 calls to her store and five others and asking female workers if he could lick their feet and suck their toes, police said. Mark Batiste, 34, told...

One person on Long Island just bought a ticket to heaven - by anonymously donating a $3 million winning lottery ticket to his or her church. The mystery miracle worker handed the scratch-off ticket to Pastor Bert Crabbe at the True North Community...

Teachers who drive and to want to work in Brooklyn should consider PS 21 in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Documents released yesterday by the city show that the 648-student elementary school has an enviable 60 parking spots, even though it lists only 47...

New York City remains the "epicenter" of the nation's HIV epidemic, with as many as 4,800 residents contracting the AIDS-causing virus in 2006, according to a new Health Department study citing the most recent available data. Using a new formula...

Pirates stormed this luxury party yacht in a daring robbery off Corsica in the Mediterranean, according to published reports yesterday. Four masked men in a speedboat pulled up on Monday to the 178-foot Tiara, which is owned by New York...

ALBANY - An ongoing state labor investigation has found that as many as 1,200 backstretch workers at Saratoga Race Course may have been underpaid, overworked and required to live in unfit conditions, Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith said...

The woman who spawned some of the most notorious and violent gangsters in mob history died peacefully of natural causes in a Long Island nursing home at age 96, her family said yesterday. Philomena "Fannie" Gotti died Tuesday night at a retirement...

A Fordham University student's aspirations for a degree have landed him in the big house after he was caught stealing more than $10,000 in computers from the school's Bronx campus, authorities said yesterday. Heyward Starks, 21, confessed to...