Union director Billy Hunter plans to meet soon with Stern, says salaries are dropping. NBA players' association director Billy Hunter plans another negotiating session soon with commissioner David Stern, and here's something that might come up.

Goldman Sachs employees to collect garbage at ritzy Thanksgiving meals for hungry NYers. The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving ? meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York's ritziest caterers and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Irina Shabayeva won the sixth season of the fashion reality show "Project Runway" on Thursday in the conclusion of the hit cable series which was delayed for months by legal wrangling.

Police responding to brawl at NYC sports bar shoot guard dead, wound 2nd man in doorway. Police say officers breaking up a brawl at a New York City bar shot one armed man dead and wounded another.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - British climber George Mallory famously said he wanted to climb Mount Everest because it was there.

Bobby Frankel, gruff Hall of Fame trainer who won Belmont Stakes in 2003, dies of cancer at 68. Bobby Frankel possessed a gift for coaxing top performances out of ornery, high-strung thoroughbreds, a gruff Hall of Fame trainer who was hard in his dealings with humans but gentle with the animals in his barn.

Vaughn scores 12 in second half, Cincinnati rallies to beat Prairie View A&M 69-62. Deonta Vaughn came off the bench in the second half and scored 12 of his 15 points, helping Cincinnati rally from an early 15-point deficit to a 69-62 win over Prairie View A&M on Monday night.

Yuri Foreman is a deeply religious man, but you couldn't tell it from the way he ruthlessly knocks people out in the boxing ring.

Founder of SYMS discount clothing store, Sy Syms, dies of heart failure at the age of 83. Sy Syms, founder and chairman of the SYMS Corp. discount clothing chain, died of heart failure Tuesday in New York, according to a statement issued by the company. He was 83.

Ex-Met Wally Backman starting over with Brooklyn farm team, still hopes to manage in majors. Wally Backman wants another chance to manage in the majors. The former Mets second baseman, fired after four days with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2004, was introduced Tuesday as manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones, New York's Class-A farm team in the New York-Penn League.

Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.

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Ex-Kiss drummer Peter Criss, a survivor of male breast cancer, urges men to get checked for it. Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.

Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.

Rashad Bishop scores career-high 20, Cincinnati beats Toledo 92-68. Rashad Bishop scored a career-high 20 points Wednesday night and Cincinnati had more defensive lapses before pulling away to a 92-68 victory over Toledo.

On new album, Norah Jones experiments with guitars and grooves for a more upbeat sound. Indie-rock producer Jacquire King had long been an admirer of Norah Jones' smoky, seductive voice, but the man behind acclaimed albums from Kings of Leon to Tom Waits never thought the two would ever inhabit the same musical orbit, let alone work together on a CD.

NYC groups, officials sue state agency to block project that includes Nets basketball arena. Opponents of the Brooklyn arena planned for the New Jersey Nets have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state agency's approval of a modified plan for the project.

Sept. 11 trial is likely to test New York juries' aversion to the death penalty. New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.

NYC groups, officials sue state agency to block project that includes Nets basketball arena. Opponents of the Brooklyn arena planned for the New Jersey Nets have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state agency's approval of the project.

Workers rescue 35 elementary school students from burning bus on NYC bridge; no injuries. A bus carrying 35 elementary school children on an outing has caught fire on a New York City bridge, but the children and their escorts have been rescued.