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Marvin Miller, former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, has passed away at the age of 95. Miller led the charge for free agency, changing baseball forever.

“Cyber Monday” sales surged more than 30 percent above last year, creating the top online sales day, IBM (NYSE: IBM) said.

The Chicago Cubs could add Giancarlo Stanton, Kyuji Fujikawa, and an infielder through trades and free agency this offseason.

Harnessing the Internet's potential could boost global GDP by $10 trillion to $15 trillion, if business fully exploits it, GE said.

U.S. consumers used mobile platforms to generate a 17.4 percent boost in online sales, according to an IBM survey.

Longtime “Sesame Street” director Emily Squires has died at the age of 71.

Jeremy Lin will face the New York Knicks for the first time with the Houston Rockets.

Tragedy cameto the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday when a clown collapsed and died.

Civilian good samaritans are driving the recovery effort in some of the hardest-hit areas of New York City's Staten Island.

Millions of Americans are heading home for holidays this weekend, and majority are traveling by car, early news reports on holiday travel state.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the best days of the year for travel deals. Here’s a look at some of the best sales of 2012.

Are the New York Knicks good enough to compete with the Miami Heat on the way to the NBA FInals.

Rihanna ended her 777 tour in New York at Webster Hall Tuesday night, calling the audience her "best crowd ever."

See which companies are doing right and wrong when it comes to fees and refund policies.

Rihanna has landed in New York for the last leg of her 777 tour and announced the concert location via Twitter.

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is asking the FBI for a profiler to help identify who might have killed three men Middle Eastern men in Brooklyn.

Twinkies might not be leaving your local grocery store shelf after all.

Two advocates of freedom of the press have sounded alarms over Israel's deliberate targeting of two media centers in Gaza City.

The district attorney in an upstate area of New York has admitted he previously had a career as a porn star, despite lying in response to the allegations while running for prosecutor. Mark Suben, who was been D.A. in Cortland County near Syracuse, NY since 2008, came clean during a press conference after an anonymous tipster posted a video of some of Suben’s moments on film.

Occupy Sandy, a new face of the Occupy Wall Street protest group, has emerged as an unlikely hero of superstorm relief in New York.

Over the decades, New York City's famous beach went from popular to seedy to cool again. Then a hurricane came, and it took everything away.