School did not respond fast enough Father of cyberbullied Queens 12-year-old girl

Gabrielle Molina The tragic Queens girl who hanged herself in her bedroom yesterday afternoon was mercilessly teased by classmates who called her a slut, a whore and mocked her failures with boyfriends and choices in music, friends and family said.Gabrielle Molina, 12, was found by her screaming sister at 2:30 p.m. yesterday in the small Queens Village home she shared with her parents and two ...

Edward Hopper painting of NY island sells for $19M

"Blackwell's Island," a large-scale oil painting from 1928, sold at Christie's on Thursday. Christie's identified the seller as a private American collector. The buyer wasn't ...

NYPD questions 1 in shooting death of 14-year-old

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says detectives are questioning a person of interest in the shooting death of a 14-year-old girl on a ...

Fitch Affirms State University of New York Lease Revs at AA- Outlook Stable

Fitch: Sub-Saharan Africa Has Gradual Upgrade Potential Fitch Ratings says in a newly-published report that targeted reforms and policy initiatives could see Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) sub-investment grade ratings gradually upgraded, despite per capita income falling well short of peers. The challenge for Africa from a rating perspective is the low level of GDP per capita - most SSA ...

Business gives mixed audit of Cuomos tax-free pledge

Mark Eagan . Eagan, president of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber, is not alone. Other business leaders, and economists spanning the political spectrum, also say Cuomo's plan to waive taxes for 10 years ...