Hofstra University

Juanita M. Kreps, a Duke University economist and administrator who became the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of Commerce, died Monday in Durham, N.C., after a long illness, the school announced. She was 89. Kreps was the Commerce secretary...

Skip Miller, a Los Angeles music industry veteran who rose from stock clerk to president of Motown Records and helped rejuvenate the black music division at RCA Records, has died. He was 62. Miller, who also managed Lionel Richie's solo career, was being...

The Town of Hempstead's hearing Tuesday on the environmental impacts of the proposed Lighthouse project surrounding Nassau Coliseum is expected to attract more people than the 1,150-seat venue on the nearby Hofstra University campus can hold. To...

The 18-year-old Hofstra University student - who claimed a group of men raped her inside a dorm room - is recanting her story, sources tell PIX News. The men accused of the crime - Rondell Bedward, Jesus Ortize, Kevin Tavera, Stalin Felipe - were...

An 18-year-old female student was gang-raped on her college campus early Sunday morning and police have now arrested four of her five alleged attackers. The female student was on the grounds of the Hofstra University campus, located at 1000 Hempstead...

A prosecutor on Thursday was considering levying criminal charges against a Hofstra University student who claimed she was gang-raped by five men and then recanted her story. The men accused of the crime - Rondell Bedward, Jesus Ortize, Kevin Tavera,...

A Hofstra University student who was lured away from a campus party and later tied up in a bathroom stall where she was gang raped by a fellow student and four of his friends, was the victim of an apparent orchestrated attack, police said late Tuesday....

Irv Gikofsky, also known as Mr. G, the PIX News at Ten weather expert, has been delivering forecasts on New York television for almost 30 years. New York's most popular TV weatherman, Mr. G, began his career as a school teacher at Albert Einstein...

Only the lucky ones so far have made it inside the Cypres Sports Museum, now taking shape in a nondescript office building about a mile south of Staples Center. Admission to the memorabilia collection in downtown Los Angeles has been by invitation only,...

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (WPIX) -- A Long Island couple had such a serious drug addiction, they robbed banks in Nassau County to get money to support their habits, according to police. David Graf, 29, of Seaford, was charged Tuesday with third-degree robbery in...

A juror's attempt to strike up a Facebook relationship with a witness has put convictions at risk in the Black Sunday case of two firefighters who died trying to escape a Bronx inferno. Defense attorneys, who want the verdicts set aside, say the juror...

IT'S THE hottest day of the year -- 91 degrees -- and Phil Rosenthal is stacking almond wood kindling in the pizza oven of his Hancock Park home. In little more than an hour, a cook from Pizzeria Mozza will arrive, as he does most Sunday nights, and begin...