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Leaders of the state Conservative Party are giving their critical backing for governor to former Rep. Rick Lazio (LA'-zee-oh). The endorsement came Saturday at a meeting of the Conservative Party in Brooklyn. State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long says the...

N.Y. — One of three men convicted of killing Malcolm X 45 years ago has been granted release from weekends in prison in his 17th appearance before a state parole board. The State Division of Parole says 69-year-old Thomas Hagan...

Uli Seit for The New York Times Steve Levy of Long Island. The Democrat, Steve Levy , was quickly amassing Republican endorsements, just hours after he said he would switch parties and seek the Republican nomination. Mr. Lazio, seeking to...

The last flack standing for David Paterson is, well, no longer standing for Mr. Paterson. Marissa Shorenstein, the governor's top spokeswoman, resigned this afternoon, citing "circumstances that have led to my unwitting involvement in recent news stories."

A New York state senator who was expelled after a domestic violence conviction has lost his long-shot bid to get his seat back in a special election. With 48 percent of the precincts reporting, Assemblyman Jose Peralta had 65 percent...

Polls show Attorney General Andrew Cuomo , a Democrat , as the leading gubernatorial candidate. Paterson, 55, the state's first African-American governor and first legally blind governor, has sought to distance himself from his own troubles in recent weeks and...

The exchange took place weeks before the Oct. 28 game the governor attended. They contradict some of the state Public Integrity Commission 's March 3 report charging the governor lied about how he wound up at the game and who...

00 A bushfire is threatening homes in the West Australian city of Albany. The fire is moving fast in a south-east direction towards the coast. Eighty firefighters are battling the blaze which has 10 metre high flames.

I am reasonably sure that Paterson will be appointing the replacement, assuming that he, you know, doesn't resign in the next 60 or 90 days...So, for the first time in his life, Paterson's gonna be a massa. Interesting, interesting ....