Randy Leonard

Most American children under age 7 are members of a minority group, making them the leading edge of a diversi…

Gilead Sciences Inc., the maker of the costly Sovaldi hepatitis C pill that has attracted congressional scrut…

The debate over lifting the nation s restrictions on exporting crude oil centers on refinery capacity and the…

Wading into a dispute over federal land use that dates back to the days of homesteaders and miners, Congress …

Officials in a New York village were caught up in an F.B.I. sting that also ensnared State Senator Malcolm A.…

The center shocked its volunteers last month with the news that it was behind on its rent and would have to c…

Assistant chief for security, Eliseo Perez Jr., locked eyes with an inmate. "This guy thinks he's tough," Chi…

An innovative technique is touted as a way to dispose of garbage without harmful byproducts of conventional i…

A lawsuit charges that police officers engaged in a "brutal and sadistic" beating, partially caught on video.

A zebra enjoys a jaunt on Staten Island.

A new mural brightens the view for hospital patients.

The Barnard College course called Major English Texts II was known by students as an easy A, a low-stress lit…

Some Hurricane Sandy debris was most likely destined for the international metal market, not the dump.

Natural gas production in the United States is so robust that the industry is looking to export it aboard tan…

The Army Corps of Engineers says it desperately needs about $1 billion to repair the damage from this year's …

The Nest is just one in a line of new products that will help users cut energy use by offering more control a…

A controversial pipeline from Canada that the White House delayed last month would bring jobs and increase en…

A trustee stormed out of the meeting a while after Mayor Noramie F. Jasmin and her deputy mayor, Joseph A. De…

Rescue workers in New Jersey on Tuesday recovered the body of one of two missing teenagers who apparently fel…

Police said two men had been fatally stabbed and at least two people had been wounded in gun violence after t…

Adding to the long list of Albany lawmakers accused of misusing their offices, the Democratic state senator f…

A sharply dressed vendor on a busy Bronx corner about a block from Yankee Stadium shot two men on Thursday af…

A police evidence unit brought out several large paper bags on Wednesday from the basement in SoHo where the …

The shooting scattered spectators of a basketball game at the Forest Houses on East 165th Street.