Stocks advance on Microsoft, Countrywide

NEW YORK – Wall Street closed an erratic week with strong gains on Friday as strong earnings from Microsoft Corp. and an optimistic outlook from Countrywide Financial Corp. outweighed investor [...]

Italian mobsters in widespread decline

NEW YORK – In early 2004, mob veteran Vincent Basciano took over as head of the Bonanno crime family. The reign of the preening, pompadoured Mafioso known as Vinny Gorgeous lasted only slightly longer than a coloring dye job from his Bronx hair salon.
Within a year, the ex-beauty shop owner with the hair-trigger temper was [...]

Testimony: Mob discussed Giuliani hit

 
NEW YORK – The bosses of New York’s five Mafia families discussed killing Rudy Giuliani in 1986 when he was a mob-busting federal prosecutor, according to testimony Wednesday in the [...]

“DUMBLEDORE IS GAY”

NEW YORK – With author J.K. Rowling’s revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a [...]

NYC ‘Preppie Killer’ in Drug Sting

NEW YORK (AP) — The so-called “Preppie Killer,” who served 15 years in prison for strangling a woman in Central Park, was arrested Monday for selling drugs and resisting arrest.
Robert Chambers’ arrest stemmed from an undercover operation in which drugs, including cocaine, were purchased from him at his residence in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, police [...]