New York

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died early Friday morning at the age of 88 after spending the last several months in and out of hospitals.

Some people will shake their heads at this next statement and others will completely agree with me.  My wife, Marie Anne, asked if I'd like to see the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in person.  My response was, "I'd rather be hanging out in Millinocket driving the dirt roads." In retrospect, what I may have said is, "I'd rather drive a blunt object into my eyeballs."  Fact is, I wa

A man drove from Long Island, New York, into Lower Manhattan earlier today in a van he thought was filled with explosives. He parked the van close to the Federal Reserve building, just a few blocks from the World Trade Center, and planned to detonate it using a cell phone from a nearby hotel. The explosives, however, were fake.