Big Brown, the pre-race favorite and the winner of this year's Florida Derby, won Saturday's Kentucky Derby with an explosive finishing kick. The filly Eight Belles came in second place, but sustained a serious injury during the race and was later euthanized on the track.

A car accident in downtown Manhattan has caused part of a scaffold to fall off a building.

Barack Obama has defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Saturday's Democratic caucuses on Guam by just seven votes.

A Queens food company is recalling more than 286,000 pounds of meat and poultry because it might be contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.

Johnny Damon homered and doubled twice to help Mike Mussina win his third straight start in the New York Yankees' 6-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google Inc.

The Arizona Diamondbacks figure they're going to win every time Brandon Webb pitches. They didn't expect Augie Ojeda to help make him the majors' first seven-game winner. Ojeda drove in a career-high six runs to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 10-4 victory over the New York Mets on Saturday.

A former security director of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had accused the agency of firing him for trying to expose corruption.

Rockefeller Center?s bronze Atlas will receive a long overdue restorative cleaning, but no break from bearing the weight of the world upon his shoulders.

A Manhattan barber will offer you a trim ? and a movie you can?t refuse.