Jake Pearson

Two centuries-old burial vaults discovered beneath a street in the heart of New York University's campus by workers replacing a water main were likely part of a Presbyterian church cemetery, an archaeologist said.

A lawyer seeking to free two chimpanzees from a state university told a judge Wednesday that their confinement for research purposes is akin to slavery, the involuntary detention of mentally ill people and imprisonment.

The nation's largest police force learned the hard way that there are legions online devoted to short-circuiting even the best-intentioned public relations campaign -- in this case, the NYPD's Twitter invitation to people to post feel-good photos of themselves posing with New York's Finest.