Manhattan prosecutors made their best offer to the accused teenaged Starbucks bomber today: a grande three-and-a-half years behind bars if he pleads guilty to the 2009 Upper East Side blast.

While the Israeli military helicopter crash in the heart of Romania was not widely reported in the European country, any reports on the incident in local websites were swamped with

Bedbugs have gotten under New York City government’s skin. After a somewhat hands-off policy that left individuals and companies to handle bedbug problems on their own, the city Wednesday plans

American officials from the president down tried Tuesday to downplay the leak of tens of thousands of documents about the war in Afghanistan, a disclosure experts are calling the biggest

The family of police shooting victim Sean Bell has settled a civil case against the city, and city officials will pay more than $7.1 million to the plaintiffs. Bell was

The following is from the Wall Street Journal: The Paterson administration, under mounting pressure from county governments owed hundreds of millions of dollars by the state, is promising local officials

Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield today applauded the Taxi & Limousine Commission’s (TLC) Group Ride Vehicle Pilot Program, which will provide point to point, shared ride van service between specified

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States remained at a “sustained and troubling” level in 2009, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which compiles annually a statistical audit

On Tuesday afternoon (July 27), all seven men who were on board an Israeli Air Force CH-53 series helicopter were R”L confirmed dead. The fatal helicopter crash which took place

In case you haven’t learned the hard way, dropping off your rental car at the airport with an empty tank can cost you more in gas than your airfare. The

Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on “at least two countries” in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run

The Defense Department is unable to account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in Development Fund for Iraq monies in received for reconstruction in Iraq. This according to a

Military investigators are checking computers used by Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst charged this month with leaking classified information, to see if he is the source of thousands

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sent a warm thank you letter Chacham Ovadia Yosef in response to the latter’s “get well” card sent two weeks ago in the wake of reports

The fix is in for cops who toss out tickets for friends and family. The NYPD has started tracking every summons electronically – even before officers hand them out on

While the courts have been busy making decisions about digital rights, Washington has also been having its say on copyright law, at least as it relates to the iPhone and

As parents arrived early Monday morning to drop their kids off for summer camp at the B’Nai Shalom Synagogue in Olney, Md., they were greeted by a derogatory name for

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich ripped State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over the controversial plans to build a mosque near the World Trade center site. Appearing on Monday’s edition of

Officials in the United Arab Emirates have put the BlackBerry smartphone under review as potential national security threat, according to WAM, the UAE’s official state news agency. BlackBerry “operates beyond

Citigroup Inc. on Monday told its U.S. mobile banking customers they should upgrade to a new application designed for Apple’s iPhone after the bank’s original version was found to have