LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Alyssa Milano, star of ABC's midseason comedy "Romantically Challenged," is doing double duty for the network.

A New York police cruiser driving ahead of US Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade struck another car in mid-town Manhattan Tuesday, injuring four people, city police said.

Independent US senator Joe Lieberman on Wednesday called this month's deadly shooting spree at the Fort Hood army base "the most destructive terrorist attack on America since September 11, 2001."

President praises NYPD for 'exceptional teamwork' during aide's briefing on terror case. President Barack Obama praised the police department on Saturday for its work in disrupting a possible terrorist bombing plot aimed at commuter trains.

Bloomberg, others seek continued federal funding to protect NYC from radioactive threats. The arrest last week of former coffee vendor Najibullah Zazi on charges of plotting to attack New York City gives added urgency to the city's pleas for federal funding to deter nuclear attacks, Mayor Bloomberg and area lawmakers said Sunday.

FBI director discounts suggestions police miscommunication damaged terror case. FBI Director Robert Mueller rejected suggestions Wednesday that poor coordination between the FBI and New York Police Department damaged the investigation of an Afghan immigrant charged with plotting a bomb attack in New York City.

Suspect in killing outside NYC post office is found dead in Philadelphia. A man suspected of killing someone he bumped into on a sidewalk outside New York City's main post office has been found dead in Philadelphia, police said Wednesday.

Officials: NY men under surveillance in terrorism investigation; more arrests expected. A "handful" of men in New York are possible associates of the chief suspect in a suspected plot to use homemade bombs to attack New York City commuter trains, and investigators have them under heavy surveillance, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

NYC to expand its high-tech counterterror system to cover high-profile buildings in midtown. A network of security cameras, license plate readers and weapons sensors intended to protect lower Manhattan from terrorist threats will be expanded to the city's midtown area.

Boat runs aground in marshland off coast of NY's Long Island, leaving 3 dead, 4 seriously hurt. A powerboat navigating a channel in an area dotted with boggy salt marshes ran aground off Long Island, killing three people and seriously injuring four others, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A recently disrupted bombing plot represented one of the most serious security threats to the United States since the September 11 attacks, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.

AP Enterprise: Police across the US stop and question more than 1 million people each year. A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street. These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime.

Feds question 2 men whose photos were shown to New York imam along with terror suspect's. Federal investigators have questioned two men whose photographs were shown to a Muslim religious leader along with a picture of an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a bomb attack in New York City.

1 arrested, 1 sought in possible hate-crime beating of gay man outside New York City deli. New York City police say a 49-year-old gay man leaving a corner deli near his home was beaten by two men in an apparent hate crime.

Off-duty NYPD officer accused of displaying gun to quiet unruly hockey fans on commuter train. Authorities say an off-duty New York City police officer who displayed a handgun while trying to quiet unruly passengers on a train has been arrested and suspended without pay.

New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn condemned the Friday beating of a gay man in Queens. New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn condemned the Friday beating of a gay man in Queens on Monday. Jack Price was attacked coming out of a corner deli by two men Friday around 3AM in the middle-class neighborhood of College Point in Queens, New York. Police allege the two men taunted price and yelled anti-gay slurs. Quinn led a group of city and state officials at an impromptu press conference in front of Booth Memorial Hospital. The victim, forty-nine-year-old Jack Price, was inside the hospital, where he clung to life in a medically-induced coma. The openly lesbian lawmaker said news of the attack ?smacked particularly hard? in light of Sunday's largely successful National Equality March on Washington, which she had just attended. Quinn said she's grown tired of attending such conferences, called hate crimes ?sad? and added that ?these two hateful, ignorant individuals r

Warning system that sniffs out harmful biological pathogens deserves high priority. Since 9/11, scientists have agonized over how to devise an early detection warning system that is effective enough to alert Americans about the presence of another type of terrorist attack ? the release of potentially deadly biological organisms in the air.

Indictment in NY court charges Muslim religious leader in NYC terror plot case. A Queens imam has been indicted on charges that he lied to federal agents about an Afghan immigrant who was later charged with plotting a bomb attack in New York City.

9 lives per gallon? Stray cat takes 2-mile ride in SUV engine, ends up grease-soaked but OK. A cat who rode two miles through New York City while stuck in the engine compartment of an SUV has lived to meow about it. Wilfred Rodriguez heard rattling while he was driving Monday in the Bronx. After he parked, he spotted a bushy tail and a paw sticking out of the SUV's front end.

New York judge says ex-NYPD commissioner Kerik displaying worrying behavior in jail. Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is displaying worrisome, risky behavior in jail, a federal judge said Friday after speaking with the jail's psychiatric director.