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A multi-faceted investigation is underway into two possible bias attacks on seemingly opposing targets — a church and a synagogue — in separate New Jersey communities, authorities said Monday. There was no immediate indication that the two cases are connected, so whether the timing was coincidental — both happened within a 36-hour...

A 19-year-old will spend almost two decades behind bars for the 2020 shooting death of a schoolteacher who was walking his dog in Queens in broad daylight, the local district attorney’s office said. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Ike Ford was sentenced to 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the sh...

Well, it’s not like we can pretend this for the Jets.

New York City has once again outdone itself. In a city driven to continuously raise — or, more accurately, in this case (and maybe other cases) lower — the proverbial bar, even nothing can be special, especially when it’s the first-ever nothing of its kind. That’s where we find ourselves. For the first time ever (well, since...

A speeding BMW flipped over as the driver failed to navigate a turn on Queens’ Belt Parkway overnight, killing both of his passengers, authorities say. Cops responding to the Belt Parkway crash near 150th Street in South Ozone Park around midnight found the BMW mangled. Both passengers died — a 16-year-old boy at a hospital a short time...

A woman fought back after a man attempted to steal her purse while she was in the parking lot of a grocery store in Wallingford on Saturday. Officers were called to Stop & Shop on North Colony Road around 1 p.m. after getting a report of an attempted purse snatching. Authorities said the woman reported that while placing her groceries…...

Intrepid Travel’s CEO James Thornton shares ways to separate companies that are serious about sustainability from those that are jumping on the eco-bandwagon.

Police are stepping up synagogue patrols in certain areas of New Jersey after someone in a ski mask threw a lit Molotov cocktail at one in Essex County overnight in an apparent attempt to burn it down, authorities say. No one was hurt in the 3:20 a.m. Sunday incident at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield. According to police, security footage…...

Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single “Money (That’s What I Want)” and later collaborated on such classics as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “War,” has died.

Bills safety Damar Hamlin released a lengthy video expressing gratitude for the support he’s received during his recovery.

The last time Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band toured in United States was in Sept. of 2016, as part of the The River tour. At that time, Chicago’s United Center was the second stop on his list.

Shaquille O’Neal clapped back at Kevin Durant on social media Saturday, commenting on the Brooklyn Nets star’s hair.

Tom Verlaine, a guitarist and co-founder of the seminal proto-punk band Television, has died. He was 73.