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Literary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and so informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as "the smartest man who ever lived," has died. He...

Below are transplant centers whose patient survival rates exceeded or fell short of expectations. Not listed are transplant centers that met survival expectations--which factor in the condition of patients and donated organs. SOURCE: Scientific...

President George W. Bush's first-ever retraction of a pardon - for convicted real-estate scammer Isaac Toussie - has the potential to become a defining legal precedent. If so, Toussie, 37, will have found the weirdest way yet to follow......

Clive Barnes, the avuncular and quotable critic who covered New York's theater and dance scene for more than 40 years, died early Wednesday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 81 and recently had been diagnosed with liver cancer. His death...

Hundreds packed a Smithtown church Monday to pay final respects to Amanda Malloy, the grade school teacher run down by a driver police said was high on marijuana. Many mourners wore green buttons, necklaces or scarves -- the 29-year-old's favorite...

MOUNT SINAI, N.Y. (WPIX) -- Suffolk County police are looking for two men they say sexually assaulted a bartender at a Mount Sinai bar in the middle of the day. The incident happened back on February 3. According to police, the two men entered Secrets...

(ARA) - Want to lower your risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease? All it takes is 10 minutes of physical activity three times a day. Ten times three - it's really that simple. And it's what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

A Three Village elementary teacher accused of raping a bartender pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to charges of rape, aggravated sexual abuse and assault. Michael Wachholder, 30, of Rocky Point, was ordered held on $450,000 bail. He is due back in...

Back then, New York City was nearly bankrupt. It was hot, and the Son of Sam was still on the loose. And then the lights went out. The 1977 blackout in New York struck a city already on edge and threatened to push it over. The power outage, which...

In the hunt for the roots of violence in America, television once again finds itself in the crosshairs. A recent study published in the journal Science reports that teenagers who watch more than an hour of television a day are more likely to commit...

A "life coach" and motivational speaker who turns 57 on Friday has apparently become the oldest American to give birth to twins. The boy and girl, Francesca and Gian, were born to Aleta St. James on Tuesday by Caesarean section. They were conceived...

Everybody's working for the weekend, as the song says. But who's working on the weekend - at your local hospital? For some patients, it might be a life-or-death question, according to an article published in late August in The New England Journal of...