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WASHINGTON (AP) — Some 9.5 million people have already signed up for 2015 coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and the administrat...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lost about $200 million in economic activity in the fizzled snow storm and decision to shut down the transit system, but...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Two men have pleaded not guilty to state charges stemming from the slaying of a New York City violinist who was killed at her up...

BOSTON (AP) — Its winds howling at more than 70 mph, the Blizzard of 2015 slammed Boston and surrounding parts of New England on Tuesday with none of ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Federal officials say that more than 140,000 Pennsylvanians have enrolled for the first time in plans sold through the health i...

In the wild world of winter weather, location is everything, which New York and Massachusetts learned too well Tuesday. Small last-minute changes in t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration floated a plan Tuesday that for the first time would open up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drillin...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a fire has caused extensive damage to a Rochester building where dozens of firefighters worked for several hour...

GENESEO, N.Y. (AP) — A girl found shot to death in a western New York cornfield 35 years ago has been identified as a missing Florida teenager. DNA fr...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former CIA officer was convicted Monday of leaking details of a covert mission to derail Iran’s nuclear program in a case tha...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Monday requested a pretrial conference to discuss handling classified information in their case against an Oh...

NEW YORK (AP) — A top New York Police Department official who once worked as a television news correspondent took the witness stand Monday at the tria...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-foot-long drone apparently flown by a hobbyist crashed on the White House grounds Monday in an extraordinary, if unintended, b...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Sentencing is set for three of four upstate men involved in the murder of a western New York couple two years ago. Joshua McCorm...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Officials in Buffalo have shut down a bar after a man was shot and wounded following a fight, making it the third nightspot in th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare will change the way it pays hospitals and doctors to reward quality over volume, the Obama administration said Monday, in a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs Department said Monday it is creating a single regional framework that divides the sprawling agency into five c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This should be a golden era for tea party conservatives, whose energies helped Republicans gain a historic House majority and take c...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A U.S. drone strike targeted al-Qaida in Yemen on Monday, signaling Washington’s determination to keep fighting the militants desp...

NEW YORK (AP) — While Joan Rivers lay sedated in a Manhattan clinic, her doctors performed unauthorized medical procedures, snapped a selfie with the ...