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Police say another person injured in a stampede at a rap concert has died. The death toll is now two after the chaos in Rochester, New York. A 33-year-old died earlier. The two were among those injured in a crowd surge as concertgoers left a show headlined by Grammy-nominated artist GloRilla. Authorities say audience members rushed for the Main Str...

A mysterious death investigation is underway in midtown Manhattan after a woman’s body was found in an SUV. Few details were immediately available on the circumstances that drew hazmat teams to the scene, near East 56th Street and Sutton Place, around 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Someone called the cops to report a woman unconscious. She was pronounced...

A man is in custody after a brutal assault and rape in an Upper West Side stairwell in the early hours of Saturday morning. Cops say Jamel McIver, 30, of East 121st Street, faces charges of rape, sexually motivated burglary and criminal sex act in connection with the incident at 1 a.m. Saturday near West End Avenue and West 65th…

Fire investigators are blaming a lithium-ion battery for sparking a massive 5-alarm inferno that tore through a supermarket in the Bronx. The fire took off around 10: 40 a.m., triggering a response from approximately 200 firefighters to the Concourse Food Plaza on Sunday. Huge plumes of thick smoke filled the sky, visible from miles away. Mayor Eri...

The day after a devastating house fire claimed the lives of five people, including two children, the Spring Valley community lit candles and prayed for the victims taken in the overnight inferno. Family and friends mourned Sunday at a growing memorial outside the home where a 4 a.m. fire took the five victims, all believed to be from the same&#8230...

Switzerland requires milk-based products promoting themselves as Swiss to be made entirely within the country.

A spokesperson for the duke and duchess confirmed the couple received an “email correspondence” about the ceremony.

The Long Island Rail Road rolled out a series of schedule changes Monday intended to address the overcrowding and confusion that dominated the first week of service at the new, and long-awaited, Grand Central Madison station. The station had been touted as the antidote to those scourges, and yet many LIRR riders say the very infrastructure intended...

Ida Tin coined the term “FemTech” in 2016, which describes all tech that aims to tackle health issues that only, or disproportionately, impact women.

A bone believed to have been part of human remains was found in the sand at a Long Island beach on Monday, according to police.

The passenger who died after a medical emergency on a flight that was diverted to Bradley International Airport last week has been identified as a 55-year-old Maryland woman. State police identified the woman as Dana Hyde, of Cabin John, Maryland. Troopers responded to a medical assist call at the airport just before 4 p.m. Friday. Hyde was taken t...

A rescue group removed hundreds of birds from a South Jersey property in the “most horrific and overwhelming experience” they’ve ever had to handle.

The operator of a Brooklyn construction company and a foreman were convicted on various charges in connection to a wall collapse that killed a construction worker in 2018, according to the local district attorney’s office. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric González, New York City Department of Investigation Commissioner Jocelyn E. Strauber, and...