The two top salesmen for a $700 billion financial bailout are in for a grilling by Capitol Hill lawmakers just one week after the administration officially ditched the original strategy behind the rescue. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are expected to provide greater insights into the shift when they testify today before the House Financial Services Committee.

A Brooklyn variety-store owner was critically wounded during a shootout Monday night in which he shot and killed two robbers, the police said.

An 18-year-old man suspected in a deadly shooting at a house party in the Bronx early Sunday was arrested and charged with murder and related offenses, police said.

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The charges were the first to arise from a host of state and federal investigations into the legitimacy of disability payments at the Long Island Rail Road.

Senate Republicans' unexpected decision to vote on Tuesday on Gov. David A. Paterson's budget plan sent the governor scrambling to respond.

Newark police are on the scene of a shooting at a high-rise apartment building. News12 New Jersey reports that at least three people have been shot, one fatally. One of the wounded was reported to be in serious condition with a chest wound. The other suffered a leg wound and was reported in stable condition.

It is a story of courage and inspiration. Garrett Mendez has gone through an ordeal that he wasn't expected to survive. But the 22-year-old says he is grateful for his second chance -- and the opportunity it's given him to reach out to others. He seems to glide effortlessly across the ice. Mendez has been playing hockey since he was 3 years old and feels at home on ...

Associated Press writer Tim Reiterman was one of the few to escape the horrors of Jonestown Peoples Temple cult which left more than 900 men, women and children dead - most by suicide - deep in the jungle of Guyana on Nov. 18, 1978. Reiterman's memories reveal how fate and madness played out under the religious dictatorship of the Rev. Jim Jones.

Only days ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was seen as New York?s salvation from fiscal doom, but now he is criticized as not knowing what he?s talking about.