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In a renewed push to snuff out New York City’s thriving illegal cannabis market, Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan’s top prosecutor announced Tuesday that they would go after landlords who allow hundreds of illicit shops to operate.

The city is set to open its sixth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at a hotel in the Financial District to temporarily serve asylum seekers arriving to New York City from border states, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday. According to Adams, the new center will open at the Holiday Inn Manhattan — Financial District in an effo...

New Jersey’s top law enforcement official brought criminal charges Monday against a police officer he said shot a fleeing person in the back, wounding him severely. Attorney General Matthew Platkin said the state filed charges of second-degree aggravated assault and official misconduct against Paterson Police Officer Jerry Moravek. The charges stem...

The Upstate New York Poison Center revealed the top 5 products that children were poisoned with at home in 2022. Household cleaning products, like bleach and laundry pods, came in as the top product with the most exposure calls coming to the poison center. The second product with the most calls into the poison center has to do with an…...

A domestic king pigeon was found in NYC’s Madison Square Park, and it appeared to have been deliberately dyed before being released, a group said.

A 15-year-old girl has been arrested on murder and arson charges in the January death of a 27-year-old man whose body was found after firefighters put out a blaze in the Bronx that had been intentionally set, investigators say. The girl’s name was not immediately released Tuesday because of her age. According to the NYPD, she faces assault, r...

Two teenagers were shot, one of whom was grazed in the head by a bullet, as gunfire erupted not far from a Brooklyn high school, officials said.

Police said a man pulled a gun on another man and demanded his watch, and at some point a shot was fired. No one was injured, police said.

The man charged with trying to murder a Long Island police officer by stabbing him in the leg during a traffic stop pleaded guilty in the attack, and will spend 16 years in prison.

A Long Island woman was indicted for allegedly running over a 15-year-old boy with her car twice for apparently targeting her son earlier that day, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced Monday. Jennifer Nelson, 35, was indicted and arraigned on one count of attempted murder in the second degree, one count of assault in the firs...

The two high-ranking uniformed members of the FDNY asked to resign their appointed posts in protest of the demotions of three staff chiefs, FDNY sources tell News 4. Chief of Department John Hodgens and Chief of Fire Operations John Esposito asked to resign after FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh told Luis Martinez, the chief of staff, to inform Ass...

New York City, which once had the nation’s strictest workplace vaccination rules for COVID-19, is ending one of its last such mandates, saying it will no longer require the shots for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers. The vaccine mandate, which led to the firing of hundreds of city workers who declined to get ...

A Florida man was sentenced to decades behind bars for the murder of a Bronx woman in 2000, according to Bronx District Attorney’s Office. Christopher Gonzalez, 41, of Naples, Florida, was sentenced Friday to 20 years to life in prison, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said. He initially pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Dec. 21, ...