A hospital in New York State has notified 1,915 patients that they may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C – days after another hospital in NY admitted making the same mistake – through reusing insulin pens, used by diabetics. Olean General Hospital is mailing 1,915 patients who received insulin between November 2009 and last week and advising them to have a blood test, although... 

The U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, met Wednesday at the White House in Washington with victims and groups demanding more restrictive legislation on weapons. While in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo, took advantage of the discourse on state of the State to announce an agenda to ban assault weapons almost a month after the Newtown, Connecticut incident, where a mentally ill teenager shot 27 people... 

New York State has become the latest US region to declare a health emergency due to a flu epidemic, with the number of confirmed cases already four times higher than last year. “We are experiencing the worst flu season since at least 2009, and influenza activity in New York State is widespread, with cases reported in all 57 counties and all five boroughs of New York City,” said governor... 

Isn't it a mistake to raise the child of a cold heart murderer? A 6-month-old boy whose mother was strangled by his father will be raised by his grandmother. “I’ll never be able to fill my daughter’s shoes,” said Karen Gloyd. ”No one has ever enjoyed or loved a baby as much as she loved her baby.” Alex D. Martinez, 22, told police that he killed his wife Angela... 

Binghamton, N.Y., police released these undated photos of Jiverly Wong, the gunman who killed 13 and himself on April 3. An Asian criminal barricaded the back door of a community center with his car and then opened fire on a room full of immigrants taking a citizenship class Friday, killing 13 people before apparently committing suicide, officials said. Investigators said they had yet to establish... 

A once-prominent art dealer was arrested on Thursday on an indictment charging that he stole $88 million from investors, collectors and artists who had consigned paintings and sculpture to his Upper East Side gallery, the authorities said. The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, said the Jewish dealer, Lawrence B. Salander, sometimes sold the same painting to more than one buyer. Aides...