Rangel Appears Nearly Certain to Face Trial on Ethics Charges
Representative Charles B. Rangel will face a rare public trial before the House ethics committee this fall, a potential embarrassment for the Democratic leadership during the election season. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=92b24d3aee41e581ac4401ec43e7d703&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=92b24d3aee41e581ac4401ec43e7d703&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Getting Into Med School Without Hard Sciences
A program admits students if they study humanities instead of the traditional pre-medical school curriculum. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=f911e821918646ef6fa918f5f4185d67&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=f911e821918646ef6fa918f5f4185d67&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Inquiry Suggested Paterson Leaked Evidence
An inquiry that cleared the governor also criticized his office for not cooperating fully. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=bf99b4f006c1ea8f71afc7e5a68d3e36&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=bf99b4f006c1ea8f71afc7e5a68d3e36&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Frenzy of Speculation Over Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding
Newspapers and TV shows grapple with the secrets of an upcoming celebrity marriage. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=cdff33003f1d9eb42bba22d3d7c3466b&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=cdff33003f1d9eb42bba22d3d7c3466b&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Autopsies in S.I. Fire Find Mother Died by Suicide
Autopsies concluded that a mother, not her 14-year-old son, was responsible for the five deaths, which were first thought to be a result of an accidental house fire. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b436dc3dae255a4a4f68ef2d4f8ca013&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b436dc3dae255a4a4f68ef2d4f8ca013&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Urban Athlete: The Ultimate Game: Disc in Hand, Expecting to Fly
Nearly five million people played a game of ultimate last year, including aging players who refuse to walk, or limp, away. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6b792521daa5fc10686c0f0cb8e56d91&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6b792521daa5fc10686c0f0cb8e56d91&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

History and Nature on Delaware and Raritan Canal
The Delaware and Raritan hasn’t been a working canal since the 1930s, but it’s still earning its keep as a very long state park. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=783fa5e3eca718ccb20309addf93b8d0&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=783fa5e3eca718ccb20309addf93b8d0&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Fewer New York Public School Teachers Earn Tenure
For the first time, New York City principals were told to take student improvement on standardized state tests into account wherever possible. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6adb07e68f525c26e25c6beea2c90cb9&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6adb07e68f525c26e25c6beea2c90cb9&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Council Approves Flushing Commons Project
That decision and a similar vote to approve a project at the old Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn gave new life to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s development agenda. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7a20862775d5b89f0de80f4dc3b7af9d&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7a20862775d5b89f0de80f4dc3b7af9d&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Bill to Aid to 9/11 Victims Is Voted Down in the House
The bill would have provided $3.2 billion to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at ground zero. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=667193ec0f96a748f1eb380f213653e6&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=667193ec0f96a748f1eb380f213653e6&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Charges Against Ferriero Are Dismissed
A judge terminated the case against Joseph A. Ferriero, citing a Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the definition of the theft of “honest services.” <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9cb3e2b33963e1c98168d7f0e967b1bf&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9cb3e2b33963e1c98168d7f0e967b1bf&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Judge Drops 13 Charges in Case Against Consultant
Hank Morris, who had advised a former state comptroller, still faces many counts related to what prosecutors said was a scheme to defraud the state pension fund. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e6a66ba68ed973e373dbaec4fadf7175&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e6a66ba68ed973e373dbaec4fadf7175&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

The Cruelest Month: Hydrating the Masses While Defending Her Turf
The heat means that business, and competition, is booming for small-scale entrepreneurs peddling water on street corners. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=248c88300f1cd0d9bba96592a3af7915&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=248c88300f1cd0d9bba96592a3af7915&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Confusion on Where New York School Performance Stands
Doubts arise as the benchmarks of proficiency change for New York City’s public school students. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b29324bec473c1fcf4830594c2c935f5&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b29324bec473c1fcf4830594c2c935f5&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Judge Refuses to Vacate Verdicts in Astor Trial
Lawyers representing Brooke Astor’s son and a lawyer who had done work for her had asked that their convictions be thrown out because of an incident involving a holdout juror. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=519092ee848d28b8509c8359c6c44453&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=519092ee848d28b8509c8359c6c44453&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Inquiry Leaves Unclear What Paterson Knew, and When
Conflicting testimony, the silence of the aide accused of domestic abuse and the governor’s claim of a bad memory leaves key questions of the investigation unresolved. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e94636a086d2544879586009a2f63851&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e94636a086d2544879586009a2f63851&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Weekend Miser: Events Inspired by the Written Word
Free things to do in New York City this weekend. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=675e25b645ea86959da5cb929fda754a&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=675e25b645ea86959da5cb929fda754a&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Lottery Numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
Lottery results for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a02f5afdb228d8622eed16108383e263&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a02f5afdb228d8622eed16108383e263&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

NYC: The Clintons, Quiet About the Wedding? What Torture!
The uncharacteristic silence of the Clintons about their daughter’s wedding has led to frenetic attempts to puncture the secrecy. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=548a5bc18a41770cc5c3b574bc700fe2&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=548a5bc18a41770cc5c3b574bc700fe2&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Obama Trumpets Democrats’ Small-Business Bona Fides
President Obama and the Democrats are vying with Republicans for the right to claim they are the true friends of small-business owners. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=eae9155e6278d0f49ca53549d975ca08&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=eae9155e6278d0f49ca53549d975ca08&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Entry Level: Baseball Intern Helps Keep Money in the Ballpark
A finance internship with the Newark Bears is teaching Richmond W. Benichak many things: the importance of staying on budget — and getting the sandwich order right. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=297bc3ce29121d079e9c0e26bab39ae3&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=297bc3ce29121d079e9c0e26bab39ae3&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Neighborhood Joint | The Rockaways: A Place to Buy Gas and Squid
Tom’s Citgo is one of the few places in Queens that still has a gas dock for boaters. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ff9af4463ed59f33b1a91c032b2a7fbf&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ff9af4463ed59f33b1a91c032b2a7fbf&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Books of The Times: Jane Ziegelman’s ‘97 Orchard’ Is a Culinary History
The Old World meets the new on the plates of immigrants on the Lower East Side in Jane Ziegelman’s “97 Orchard.” <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e3de0def515b0d63824421fae23f0753&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e3de0def515b0d63824421fae23f0753&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Dance Theater Workshop Announces New Season
Works from an international cast of choreographers. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=54eec09c85859112dcda87208c8011e5&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=54eec09c85859112dcda87208c8011e5&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Theater Talkback: Preaching to the Choir on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'?
The actor and writer Marc Wolf wonders if his solo show about gay men and women in the military can, or should, change people's minds. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9082cc1488866a035066fd857f6cc351&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9082cc1488866a035066fd857f6cc351&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

Did We Stutter? Film Society to Pay Tribute to John Hughes
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is planning a two-day celebration of Mr. Hughes's films, including a 25th-anniversary screening of "The Breakfast Club." <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a6270876c908440148a8640dcfbfa94d&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a6270876c908440148a8640dcfbfa94d&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>

A Preview of Kanye West's 'Power': 'Apocalyptic in a Very Personal Way'
Marco Brambilla discusses a video work he was commissioned to create for Mr. West's single, a decadent commentary on the rapper's ideas of celebrity and notoriety. <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=072634cd2effb770059fa46e959c66e1&p=1"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=072634cd2effb770059fa46e959c66e1&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=News&partnerID=167&key=segment"/><img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29518.rss.News.18628,cat.News.rss"/>