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Hundreds packed a Smithtown church Monday to pay final respects to Amanda Malloy, the grade school teacher run down by a driver police said was high on marijuana. Many mourners wore green buttons, necklaces or scarves -- the 29-year-old's favorite...

MOUNT SINAI, N.Y. (WPIX) -- Suffolk County police are looking for two men they say sexually assaulted a bartender at a Mount Sinai bar in the middle of the day. The incident happened back on February 3. According to police, the two men entered Secrets...

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A Three Village elementary teacher accused of raping a bartender pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to charges of rape, aggravated sexual abuse and assault. Michael Wachholder, 30, of Rocky Point, was ordered held on $450,000 bail. He is due back in...

Hypnosis transports some people beyond serenity and absorption to a state of pure silliness. A solemn voice whispering to relax, breathe deeply and imagine a waterfall can bring to mind high school séances, Ouija boards, Woody Allen routines. Yet the...

ORLANDO -- Andrew Gilbert spends about $100 a month to get a bronze glow at an Altamonte Springs tanning center. "My job is inside, and I like to have color," says the 38-year-old Winter Springs resident. "I live in Florida and I don't want to look...

Back then, New York City was nearly bankrupt. It was hot, and the Son of Sam was still on the loose. And then the lights went out. The 1977 blackout in New York struck a city already on edge and threatened to push it over. The power outage, which...

In the hunt for the roots of violence in America, television once again finds itself in the crosshairs. A recent study published in the journal Science reports that teenagers who watch more than an hour of television a day are more likely to commit...

A "life coach" and motivational speaker who turns 57 on Friday has apparently become the oldest American to give birth to twins. The boy and girl, Francesca and Gian, were born to Aleta St. James on Tuesday by Caesarean section. They were conceived...

Everybody's working for the weekend, as the song says. But who's working on the weekend - at your local hospital? For some patients, it might be a life-or-death question, according to an article published in late August in The New England Journal of...

When is the alarm set on the biological clock? A recent study says it's at 27 years for women and 35 for men, the ages at which the odds of conceiving a baby begin to decline. With the recent buzz over the tug of war between career and parenthood, the...