NEW YORK (AP) -- A school bus driver and his nephew died when a fire ravaged their apartment, a day after the city's deadliest blaze in nearly two years killed a couple and three children.

NEW YORK - When Italian Americans end today's uptown parade on Fifth Avenue for Columbus Day, Joseph Scelsa hopes they'll keep marching right down to the corner of Mulberry and Grand in Little Italy.

Maybe there was more than met the eye when the Giants shocked the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Time will tell, but that might have been the day the dynastic crown was passed to New York, Mike Freeman says.

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes in U.S. trading today. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are as of 7:40 a.m. in New York on Oct. 10, unless otherwise specified.

A SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analyst cut her rating on retailer New York & Co. Inc. after the company warned investors it would likely report a third-quarter loss due to slow sales.

Educators have long argued that standardized testing is a poor way to evaluate student knowledge. They also disagree over whether test scores are the best way to evaluate teachers. In New York City schools, a surprising compromise allows some of that data to be used.

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Rapper Jay-Z, who recorded a robo-call for Barack Obama in Ohio before the primary , is out with a video for Michigan urging "all [his] people" to vote on November 4. The McCain campaign has basically abandoned Michigan, where the economic crisis has already settled in. The real question, of course, is why the campaign got a Brooklyn-based rapper (wearing a New York hat!), rather than ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) _ Paul Krugman, the Princeton University scholar, New York Times columnist and unabashed liberal, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect international trade patterns.

Portraits of gay and lesbian seniors will soon adorn New York City subways and buses as part of an advocacy organization's campaign.