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TikTok 44 mins ago

Anguished NY Parents Sue TikTok, Claim Videos Glorifying Suicide Led to Teen's Death

A Long Island couple is suing the company that owns TikTok, saying that videos on the popular social media app glorified suicide and led to their son’s death. Dean and Michelle Nasca state in the laws...

New Jersey 1 hour ago

NJ Woman Made $10 Million Charging Insurance for Bogus Meds, Feds Say
NJ Transit 2 hours ago

NJ Transit Gets to Ban Rider for Year Over Gross Acts, Judge Rules

New Jersey 3 hours ago

An NJ Mom Died in a Crash Driving Home From Work. Her Family Found Out From a Blog

A family is inconsolable as they grieve the death of their loved one, Mucielouise Bostic — a mother of four who was killed in a single-car crash in Newark early Monday as she made her way home f...
news 1 hour ago

Trump Live Updates: Ex-President Suggests There Could Be ‘Death and Destruction' If He Is Charged

A New York grand jury has been hearing evidence of hush money payment benefiting former President Donald Trump. Follow live updates on the probe.
racism 7 hours ago

NYC Audubon Society Changing Group's Name Due to Namesake's Slavery Ties

The Audubon Society is named for 19th century naturalist John James Audubon, though the New York City chapter is distancing itself from that name. That’s because of his role in enslaving people....
weather 3 hours ago

NY Weather Outlook: Dreary Today Ahead of Sleet, Possible Thunderstorms Saturday

Yeah, New York City, the snow is a lost cause at this point. We’re already talking thunderstorms, alas. Ready for another mixed bag? Got you. We’ve got a dreary, mainly dry Friday on tap w...

Manhattan 3 hours ago

Death of Acclaimed NYC Fashion Designer Who Dressed Gaga Ruled Homicide 8 Months Later

It was July 24, 2022. NYPD officers responding to a 911 call at a Manhattan apartment building found a 35-year-old woman unresponsive in a bedroom. She had no obvious signs of trauma. On Friday, eight months to the day she was found, police identified the woman as Kathryn Marie Gallagher, a Pennsylvania-born painter and “internationally-recog...
amtrak 5 hours ago

‘Train Daddy' Is Back on the Rails: Andy Byford Joins Amtrak

The man affectionately and lovingly known as “Train Daddy” by New York City straphangers is back working on the rails here in the U.S., though don’t expect to see much of his work in the five boroughs.
recall alert 8 hours ago

Hyundai, Kia to Recall 570,000 Vehicles, Warn Drivers of Fire Risk

Hyundai and Kia are telling owners of over 571,000 SUVs and minivans in the U.S. to park them outdoors because the tow hitch harnesses can catch fire while they are parked or being driven. The Korean automakers are recalling the vehicles. Affected Hyundais include the 2019 to 2023 Santa Fe, the 2021 to 2023 Santa Fe Hybrid, the 2022 and...
Suffolk County 42 mins ago

Norovirus Sickens Hundreds of Students at Long Island High School, Officials Believe

Hundreds of students at a Long Island have been out sick in the last week, and now health officials believe they know what it is: the very contagious norovirus, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
Brooklyn 6 hours ago

An NYPD Evidence Warehouse Went Up in Flames 3 Months Ago. Now We Know Why

No one purposely torched that NYPD evidence warehouse that went up in flames in Brooklyn late last year, fire officials said Thursday as they revealed the cause. An electrical blowout in a conduit leading to an exit sign sparked the three-alarm Columbia Street fire on Dec. 13, which sent huge clouds of black smoke billowing over Red Hook, fire mars...
news 9 hours ago

Young Moviegoers Are More Likely to Pay More for Good Seats in Theaters, New Survey Says

Young moviegoers don’t mind paying extra fees to see films on the big screen, if it means they get to sit in the best seats in the house, a new survey says.
broadband 16 hours ago

NYC Expands ‘Big Apple Connect' to Deliver Free Internet, Cable to 300K+ New Yorkers

New York City is expanding by nearly 50 percent “Big Apple Connect” — the nation’s largest municipal broadband program which provides free internet and basic cable television service to hundreds of NYCHA developments. ‘Big Apple Connect’ provides NYCHA residents a free bundle that consists of in-home, high-speed internet con...
DEA 6 hours ago

‘Deadliest Drug Threat Made Deadlier:' DEA Issues Health Alert Over Flesh-Eating Mix

Even as law enforcement in New Jersey tries to wrap a criminal investigation into fentanyl overdoses of five women, one of whom died, at an upscale mall, federal drug authorities are warning of even more dangerous substances. Fentanyl, which is what the women in the Shops at Riverside mall case ingested last week, can be used to lace drugs like&#82...
holocaust 3 hours ago

Holocaust Survivor Shares on TikTok to Educate Young People

Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson. In the family living room in Morristown, New Jersey, Aron Goodman records his grandmother talking about her life in 1944 and 1945 as a 6-year-old child at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. They say they clips have garnered 75 million vie...
Queens Mar 23

Man Sentenced for Gunning Down 15-Year-Old Getting Off NYC Bus in 2018

A Queens man was sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars for the death of a 15-year-old getting off of a city bus in Far Rockaway in February 2018, the Queens District Attorney’s Office announced. Atekel Donaldson, 26, and from Far Rockaway, pleaded guilty in December to manslaughter in the first degree and was subsequently sentenced to 1...
New Jersey Mar 23

NJ Brush Fire Investigation Eyes Report of Boys in Ravine

Investigators are looking into whether a report of boys in a ravine may have had something to do with one of the brush fires that erupted in New Jersey a day ago, spewing smoke for miles and wreaking havoc on commuter rails, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation. That law enforcement source said one of…...
New York Live 21 hours ago

This Crepe Lasagna Will Have Your Mouth Watering

Lauren Scala takes us to Casino, which has great coastal Italian food and a nice vibe.
College Basketball Mar 23

‘A Chance to Feel Like Celebrities': Princeton Tigers Add to Their March Madness Lore

Two years ago, Mitch Henderson was coaching a Princeton team that was basically on sabbatical. Now the 15th-seeded Tigers are in the Sweet 16.

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