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As a high school teacher and baseball coach, Steve Loutzenhiser is used to an active life, describing himself as “super healthy” and athletic. So he was surprised when a sudden bout of back pain started to disrupt his life in the fall of 2024. “I felt like I was getting stabbed in the back at night when I was trying…

Authorities are looking for a person who attacked a 7-year-old boy in front of his mother inside a Queens subway station last month, then threatened both of them a knife before running off. According to the NYPD, the boy and his 37-year-old mom were on a northbound F train platform in the 21st Street-Queensbridge station in Astoria around lunchtime...

A Suffolk County neighborhood is reeling from a shocking murder. Authorities say 75-year-old John “Jack” Miller, a retired Suffolk County police officer and former chief of the Wyandanch Volunteer Fire Department was gunned down by his own son, Christopher Miller, 43. Neighbors say Christopher Miller had recently moved back into his childhood home ...

A jury has convicted two men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City. Prosecutors say it involved a murder-for-hire scheme financed by the Iranian government.

New York City never actually implemented its 2022 law that would have let 800,000 cast a ballot for mayor, city council and other local offices, but not for president, Congress or state officials

A former math teacher at an upscale private school in Brooklyn and one-time “Jeopardy!” champion was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison on charges that he posed as a teenager on Snapchat to solicit nude images and sexual videos from children. Winston Nguyen, 38, had pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of use of a child in&#8230...

One of the most hectic days in college basketball is here as the first round of the 2025 men’s NCAA Tournament gets underway. A total of 16 men’s games will tip off over the span of roughly 12 hours Thursday. The first game tips off at 12:15 p.m. ET. The women’s First Four, meanwhile, will conclude with two games ahead of the star...

Weather Kids and Niños Del Tiempo stopped by Public School 16 in Paterson, NJ for a bilingual weather session. NBC 4 New York Meteorologist, Raphael Miranda, and Telemundo 47 Chief Meteorologist, Andrea Romero, met with fifth and sixth graders to talk about upcoming spring and summer weather.

Detectives in Berlin Township, New Jersey are searching for a man they said tried to abduct a girl while she was walking to school.

It was a high-stakes playoff basketball game between Floral Park Memorial and West Hempstead High Schools. Joe Gaskin was one of three referees officiating the game. Nearly towards the end of the first quarter, the 64-year-old Gaskin suddenly felt out of breath. “One of the coaches asked me, ‘Hey ref, are you feeling OK?’ I said I’m hav...

The NYPD is investigating three thefts from luxury gyms in New York City over the past few months. The alleged thieves left with wallets, cell phones and credit cards, which were then used to make unauthorized purchases totaling $83,000, the NYPD said. The thefts all involved personal property being taken from gym lockers. The first theft occurred ...

High eggs prices have been a concern for consumers across America this year. Recently we got some good news. The average cost of a dozen large white eggs is now $4.90, compared with an all-time high of $8.64 on March 5, the United States Department of Agriculture said last week. That’s the lowest level registered since Dec. 20. The prices, th...

While New York transit officials point to publicly available statistics showing major crime on the subway system is trending down this year, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy noted “a number of high-profile safety related incidents” in a letter sent to the head of the MTA.

FBI Director Kash Patel applauded Mexican authorities Tuesday for the arrest and handover of one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” suspects, an alleged gang leader from El Salvador. Francisco Javier Román Bardales is allegedly a senior leader of the Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 gang. He was arrested Monday in the mountains of the Gulf coast state o...