James McGreevey, the former New Jersey governor, has begun testifying in his high-profile divorce battle with Dina Matos McGreevey.

The woman accused of being the primary booker for the prostitution ring patronized by Eliot Spitzer pleaded guilty on to charges related to her role in the ring.

At Christie’s, bidders paid top dollar for everything from an abstract canvas by Mark Rothko to a painting of a naked fat woman by Lucian Freud.

The state treasurer said that New Jersey collected $533 million more than anticipated in tax revenue last year, allowing Gov. Jon S. Corzine to soften some of his proposed budget cuts.

A 9-year-old boy was critically injured in Brooklyn on Tuesday by a 16-year-old hit-and-run driver who later turned himself in, the police said.

In neighborhoods across the city, skirmishes are breaking out over which ice cream franchise can sell its wares on which route.

New York’s public and private hospitals stand to lose more than $1 billion in funds for the training of doctors because of changes to Medicaid backed by the Bush administration, an analysis says.

As medical advances have allowed patients who might have died as children to survive into adulthood, the health care system that has yet to develop institutions for them.

At Christie’s, bidders paid top dollar for everything from an abstract canvas by Mark Rothko to a painting of a naked fat woman by Lucian Freud.

A parish church named for St. Jerome has linked Mott Haven, an upstate D.J. and Dion DiMucci, the doo-wop legend from Belmont who goes by his first name.