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An upstate New York man has been charged with setting off explosives in another man’s yard and sending letters to neighbors warning that he planned to continue doing it.

Many malls are retooling some of their (sometimes empty) retail spaces into experiences — special events like sports for kids, fitness classes or even scavenger hunts

A 29-foot rescue boat from the guard’s Atlantic City station soon arrived to find a man clinging to a submerged kayak, authorities said, and crew members got the man into the rescue boat and brought him to shore

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy received his first COVID-19 vaccination on Friday, shortly after signing legislation providing $35 million in federal pandemic funds to restaurants, bars and other related businesses

A production issue with Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine that tossed out 15 million doses is causing concern among states trying to expedite their rollouts as they expand eligibility.

Grammy-nominated performer DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, passed away at a hospital in White Plains, New York, after suffering “catastrophic cardiac arrest,” his family confirmed Friday. Tributes to the 50-year-old rapper, which first poured out last weekend following news of his hospitalization, engulfed social media feeds once ...

DMX, the raspy-voiced hip-hop artist who produced the songs “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” and “Party Up (Up in Here)” and who rapped with a trademark delivery that was often paired with growls, barks and “What!” as an ad-lib, has died, according to a statement his family released Friday. He was 50 years old. The Grammy-nominated performer, whose real name ...

A 29-year-old Bronx man has been indicted for allegedly stabbing his quadriplegic 6-year-old son and attacking a 16-year-old girl with whom he had been smoking pot in his apartment, then refusing to let her leave, prosecutors said this week. Tyree Scott was arraigned Tuesday on charges including attempted murder, assault and unlawful imprisonment i...

Thirteen Connecticut towns and cities in Connecticut have been identified as COVID-19 hotspots and now state and local leaders are focusing in on vaccination efforts in those areas.

What makes someone more likely to experience side effects from the coronavirus vaccine than others? Is one brand more likely to cause side effects? What about that second dose? Here are the most common questions and answers around vaccine side effects.

The Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have all proven effective at preventing serious illness and death from coronavirus, experts say. But how effective are they generally — and how do they compare to one another?

Verizon has issued a recall for one of its mobile hotspot products after reports that the devices overheated and caused fire, according to to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall specifically involves about 2.5 million units of the Ellipsis Jetpack mobile hotspots that were distributed in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, CPSC said. Ver...

Standing a test of time, Deno’s Wonder Wheel on Coney Island is spinning again after 18 months of closure. Coney Island welcomed visitors back to its amusement attractions Friday for the first time since 2019. With limited capacity and new COVID guidelines for guests, including advanced reservations that can be made online prior to visiting t...

A New Jersey man facing murder charges in two states made a brief court appearance Thursday and remained jailed awaiting a possible indictment. Sean Lannon appeared by videoconference before a judge in Gloucester County, New Jersey, where he was charged last month with murder in the beating death of Michael Dabkowski. An affidavit alleged Lannon br...

The fund, which passed this week as part of the state budget, will give payments of up to $15,600 to as many as 300,000 workers who were living in the country illegally and weren’t eligible for federal stimulus checks, unemployment aid, or other benefits

An attorney for Maxwell claims her client has been mistreated, including being subjected to over 1,400 physical searches and flashlight checks to ensure she’s breathing every 15 minutes while she sleeps, and that she is “withering to a shell of her former self”

A man died Wednesday afternoon in a small airplane crash in New York that the pilot survived with broken bones and burns, authorities said

New Jersey and women incarcerated in the state’s only women’s prison have reached a nearly $21 million settlement over longstanding allegations of abuse and harassment at the facility, the state’s embattled corrections commissioner said

A new audio-visual exhibit immerses guests within another dimension full of majestic sounds and out-of-this-world imagery – right here in the Big Apple. Geometric Properties is the latest installation by New York City’s ARTECHOUSE, the nation’s first innovative art destination that crosses art, science and technology. Created by a...

The NYPD launched a double homicide investigation Thursday in the mysterious deaths of two newborn boys whose bodies were found on a Bronx patio nearly five months ago, officials say. Few leads have emerged in the disturbing case of the dead children, who were thought to have been born less than 24 hours after they were discovered by a resident&#82...

New Yorkers age 75 and older and an eligible escort of any age now have more than two dozen sites where they can walk in and get vaccinated without an appointment, with Mayor Bill de Blasio adding a 26th option Thursday. De Blasio said the initial pilot program at three 24/7 city-run sites — the Brooklyn Army Terminal, Bathgate Contract&#8230...

The subpoena asked for Jennifer Weisselberg to turn over all materials in her possession connected to her ex-husband’s bank accounts and credit cards.

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating two more apparent bias attack involving Asian victims, the latest in a series of confrontations that have involved threats, punches and one brutal stomach-stomp near Times Square. Police said the attack in question happened shortly before 8 p.m. March 26 in a Home Depot on Gateway Drive in Br...

New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission will hold its first public meeting on Monday.

A 97-year-old man died in a horrific Brooklyn accident Wednesday when a 79-year-old driver pulled out of park and onto the curb, driving along a sidewalk and hitting the victim with his bumper, then pushing him into a storefront and pinning him. Cops responded to a 911 call about a car accident involving a pedestrian on Brighton Beach Avenue, just&...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced sweeping changes to the coronavirus-related closure policy for the nation’s largest public school system Thursday, adjustments he says will provide families more consistent scheduling while still prioritizing safety for all students and staff.

A fast-moving fire roared through a home in New Jersey’s largest city early Thursday, killing a 7-year-old boy and injuring several others. The fire in Newark apparently broke out around 4:45 a.m., authorities said, and heavy flames and smoke were shooting out when firefighters arrived. The boy’s father was able to escape the burning th...

A New York City Department of Education employee was arrested on Wednesday and charged with rape of a minor, police said. The NYPD says 26-year-old Sergio Garcia, a teacher at a Brooklyn school is accused of raping his stepdaughter who was 14 years old at the time. The victim is now a few years older, a police department spokesperson told…...

Customs agents at JFK International Airport confiscated 22 snails from a man’s luggage this week. U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday said the U.S. man arrived on a flight from Ghana with the Giant African Snails and around 24 lbs of oxtail, dried beef, turkey berry, medicinal leaves and other spice and plant products. The snails ...

Nearly 16 million people are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in New York. With Gov. Andrew Cuomo opening up eligibility Tuesday to all New Yorkers age 16 and older, yet another surge of people are trying to schedule shots. With the exception of pharmacies, all vaccine providers are permitted to vaccinate any eligible New Yorker. Pharmacies incl...

All New Yorkers age 16 and older are eligible to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations as of 8 a.m. Tuesday, marking the state’s last big expansion and one that comes weeks ahead of President Joe Biden’s deadline for a universal rollout nationally.

Drivers faced higher tolls at MTA crossings after hikes took effect Sunday in a move designed to bring in millions in annual revenue. Those crossings include the RFK Bridge, Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Henry Hudson Bridge, Cross Bay Bridge, Marine Parkway Bridge, Queens Midtown Tunnel and Hugh L. Carey Tu...

Financial literacy helps voters understand political issues like infrastructure and taxes, and make smart voting decisions, says former Senator Heidi Heitkamp.

Students in one of New Jersey’s largest school districts are preparing to return to their classrooms for the first time in over a year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced academics online. Newark Public Schools will start welcoming students back on Monday in a hybrid reopening model that has students returning for in-person classes two days a ...

The chief executive of the SGX, Loh Boon Chye, said 2020 was an inflection point as Asian firms gained greater awareness of sustainability issues.

An erratic driver involved in a crash on Long Island late Saturday night fought with police and ultimately stabbed an officer in the leg, Suffolk County Police said Sunday. The officer pursued the driver of a Mercedes Benz “driving erratically with no headlights” around 10:40 p.m. Saturday heading southbound on South Ocean Avenue in Pat...

Police in Brooklyn were searching Sunday for the driver of a car that struck and killed a sanitation worker. The incident occurred Saturday morning in Williamsburg. According to police, a 2005 Honda Odyssey struck 52-year-old Angel Aguilar-Duran at about 8 a.m. approximately a block east of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Aguilar-Duran was taken to...

RBC Capital Markets’ Gerard Cassidy gives his bullish case for bank stocks ahead of earnings season.

Buying Nuance could bolster Microsoft’s assets in voice software, where it already has technology for developers.

The NYPD was still looking for the gunman Sunday morning responsible for shooting a 12-year-old boy in the chest the night before. Citizen App video from the scene in Bed-Stuy shows the moments police responded to the Brooklyn neighborhood late Saturday night. Police say the child was walking down Malcolm X Boulevard around 10 p.m. when someone in ...

New video released on Saturday captured the moment a pair of motorcycle-riding muggers made off with a woman’s jewelry in broad daylight. Police said the video shows two thieves on a motorcycle driving by a 73-year-old woman in a crosswalk at 190th Street in Washington Heights. The duo passed the woman on the motorcycle and ripped a chain off...

Rain rolls back into the tri-state on Sunday, but any threat of severe weather expected to follow has diminished overnight. Storm Team 4 says there is still a chancer of scattered thunderstorms later in the day Sunday, most likely in the evening. The risk of severe storms is no longer a threat. Sunday starts foggy and wet, staying mostly rainy&#823...

The MTA hit a major milestone this week, reaching a new peak in daily ridership since New York City’s shutdown in March 2020. New Yorkers took more than 2,009,025 subway rides on Thursday, the transit agency announced. Data shows subway ridership dropped 90 percent in the weeks after the shutdown crippled the city. Ridership across the subway...

A New Jersey man stabbed his wife to death before he was found dead himself in a home in which a young child was found unharmed, authorities said. Prosecutors in Bergen County said Friday a neighbor called North Arlington police shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to report that she had looked through the mail slot in the front door and…...

A driver was taken to a hospital after a Saturday morning crash in Midtown

The suspect told the undercover officer, “Go back to China before you end up in the (expletive) graveyard,” according to police, and allegedly threatened to slap and stab the detective in the face — all totally unaware he was threatening a member of law enforcement.

New York state on Friday eased reopening restrictions on schools to allow most students to sit closer together as long as they continue to wear masks.

After a deadly year in New York’s nursing homes, state lawmakers have passed legislation that could potentially force facility owners to spend more on patient care

Despite no charges being filed, the DA did say that the deaths show concerns about the department’s use of force, defensive tactics and tactical trainings in their interactions with the public

Cameo CEO Steven Galanis talks to CNBC Make It about how being a connector led to Cameo, how he’s learning on job and why keeping his calendar on Pacific time (even though he lives on the East Coast) helps him thrive.

Punishment for ethics violations is up to the House and can include censure, fines and even expulsion from Congress

A Texas man accused of trying to blow up an Internet data center has been arrested in an undercover FBI sting.

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has retained two prominent New York attorneys as he faces a Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls

DMX remained in a coma at a New York hospital on Wednesday after he suffered a heart attack last week.

The move at JPMorgan could ultimately begin to change the composition of Wall Street, which for decades has been mostly a bastion for white males.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo placed the state on “PAUSE” on March 22, 2020, forcing businesses to shut down and many of us to pivot to working from home. One year later, NBC New York’s new “365 Days of COVID. What’s Next?” series explores how the coronavirus has shaped our future in the Big Apple and surrounding ar...

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Shares of Tencent-backed financial technology firm Linklogis surged nearly 10% from their issue price on their Hong Kong debut on Friday.

Jeff McNeil launched a tying homer in the ninth inning on his 29th birthday and the New York Mets were handed the winning run on a disputed hit by pitch for a bizarre 3-2 victory over Miami in their home opener

Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin announced his candidacy for governor of New York on Thursday with an attack on Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the subject of investigations over sexual harassment allegations and COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents. “The bottom line is this; to save New York, Andrew Cuomo’s gotta go,” Zeldin, a fourth-term Co...

Warrants in more than 1,100 Nassau County cases were dropped on Thursday, as the prosecutor’s office moved to dismiss them in the wake of the legalization of recreational marijuana in New York state as well as the repeal of a 1970s-era prostitution law

DMX remained in a coma at a New York hospital on Wednesday after he suffered a heart attack last week.

An out-of-work electrician with a 2-month-old child has become the latest tri-state area arrest in connection to the deadly U.S. Capitol siege that took place Jan. 6, according to federal prosecutors.

Levi Strauss & Co. reported a double-digit sales decline for its fiscal first quarter, as ongoing store closures in Europe weighed on results.

U.S. stock futures were mostly higher Thursday after the S&P 500 eked out another record closing high.

Former New York Giants wide receiver Travis Rudolph was arrested early Wednesday morning in South Florida for a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded, authorities said

In addition to plastics, cigarette butts and food wrappers that sully Jersey Shore sand each year, the group’s volunteers removed 1,113 masks and other pieces of virus-related protective gear from New Jersey beaches last fall

Details about the victim, including their age and gender, were not disclosed, nor were how, when or where the alleged acts occurred or if the Ocean City officer was on duty at the time

An employee working at a Midtown 7-Eleven store was assaulted while attempting to stop a man from stealing, police said Sunday. The assault, under investigation as a possible hate crime, occurred inside the store on 8th Avenue sometime before 6 a.m. Saturday. Police say the suspect punched the 27-year-old employee in the face and called him an anti...

A man has been arrested after assaulting three Asian victims in separate Brooklyn attacks, including a case Monday where he allegedly shoved to the ground a 77-year-old man who was looking at a vegetable stand, officials say. The victim was checking out a stand in front of J&R NY Supermarket on Avenue U in Sheepshead Bay around 11:15 a.m.......

New York City’s public beaches and outdoor pools will open on time this year, the mayor announced Wednesday, the same day the city’s first dedicated mobile vaccination bus hit the road.

The county and state said the scheme involves at least one local pharmacy, but not a government-run vaccine site, and wants anyone who may have paid for a vaccine to come forward

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office will ask a court to vacate 90 convictions based on the work of a former NYPD detective now facing perjury and other charges. DA Eric Gonzalez’s office said Wednesday it did not find any misconduct in the 27 felony and 63 misdemeanor convictions, nor did it find that any of the defendants were inno...

Legal analyst and TV personality Midwin Charles has died, her family confirmed with a post on her Twitter account on Tuesday. She was 47.

A New York City police union on Wednesday warned members that an officer’s personal vehicle may have been intentially set on fire. The Police Benevolent Association said they believed the cop’s car that was parked on Surf Avenue in Coney Island was targeted because it displayed an NYPD parking placard. No one has been arrested in the in...

Police say a tourist from Kansas has been hit in the shoulder by a stray bullet near New York’s Times Square

Nearly 100 families lost their homes in an eight-alarm fire that devoured an apartment building in Queens.

A staffer who has accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her at the executive mansion said he slammed the door of his office and told her “I don’t care” after she protested, according to an interview published Wednesday.

An upstate New York police officer investigating a domestic incident shot and killed a man who was armed with a knife, state police said.

Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a former aide in the Trump administration, said in interviews Wednesday that he is evaluating a run for governor of New York as a Republican.

New Jersey’s largest school districts – including Newark, Jersey City, and Paterson – have often blamed systemic inequities for their decisions to remain all-remote or postpone hybrid learning. But when compared to Lakewood, which has had in-person learning since September, those differences don’t really exist.

A market correction can be a good thing for long-term investors, according to financial expert Suze Orman. Here’s how to prepare for the worst.

A New Jersey county prosecutor says cash being held as evidence in multiple different cases is missing, and her office is launching an internal investigation. “Various denominations of cash recovered from several separate cases have gone missing. All of the missing cash was recovered from scenes and was being temporarily held for safekeeping....

The U.S. Treasury market was calm on Wednesday after the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s recent monetary policy meeting.

As New York City focuses on vaccination, the next step in the fight against the coronavirus, it is also addressing the reality lived by some who had COVID-19, but are still experiencing long-term effects. While most individuals with COVID-19 recover and return to normal health, according to the CDC, some patients can have symptoms that can last for...

Paris Hilton returned to Salt Lake City for a ceremonial bill signing for a law that regulates treatment centers for troubled teens in Utah.

At least 21 people are hurt as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle an 8-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said.

A Long Island community is rallying around a young woman who was set to graduate college this Spring and head to medical school, when her life took a tragic turn in March.

New Jersey’s attorney general on Tuesday launched an online database that allows the public to search reports of police use of force from across the state’s more than 500 police departments

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and members of the state Legislature announced Tuesday that they had come to an agreement on a budget for the 2022 fiscal year, with major focus and funds going toward schools, green initiatives, rent relief and child care, the governor’s office said.

Sheryl Underwood is speaking out after her co-host, Sharon Osbourne, exited “The Talk” several weeks ago.

Two doormen have been fired for not acting as an Asian American woman was brutally attacked in front of their building near New York City’s Times Square.

A man in Brooklyn shot the mother of his child and two of her daughters, one of them a teenager, to death in their New York City apartment late Monday before turning the gun on himself, officials said.