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Boar’s Head is recalling more than 200,000 pounds of liverwurst and other deli meat products because they could be contaminated with listeria, which can cause potentially deadly infections in vulnerable populations, the FDA says. Authorities say they are investigating whether the contamination may be linked to an ongoing listeria outbreak tha...

Some vegetables sold at select Walmart and Aldi stories in the tri-state area are being recalled over concerns of possible listeria contamination, according to a press release. The vegetables under the recall were sold from Weirs Farm Inc. of Willard, Ohio, which had originally issued a smaller recall for cucumbers on July 12, but has since expande...

The man who says he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo saying he was harmed when the company denied his role in creating the popular hot snack.

Imagine finding a check made out to you for $12,000 while cleaning your home — it happened to a New Jersey woman, but she said she had trouble cashing it because it had been escheated. So what does that mean? NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero explains.

The Piano Man played the 104th and final concert of his monthly residence at the Garden, and he invited some special guests for the occasion.

A Long Island mother is accused of crashing into two cars while under the influence with her three-year-old daughter in the vehicle, Nassau County police said Thursday. Police said Monique Williams, 35, of Hempstead, was driving a black Honda CRV on Davis Avenue in East Garden City when she crashed into a car and drove away from the scene. The&#823...

Authorities are continuing to investigate a suspicious device discovered amid a bizarre series of events that unfolded outside a police precinct in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood a day ago, investigators said Thursday. The device was discovered in the vehicle of a man who, along with his cousin, approached uniformed officers outside the...

An MTA bus driver went into cardiac arrest early Thursday and crashed his bus into a closed Burger King restaurant in Brooklyn, police and firefighters said. The driver crashed the bus into the fast food joint on Dahill Road and Caton Avenue in Kensington just after midnight, police said. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. The 55-year-old wa...

The bodies of a man and woman were found inside a Brooklyn residential building Wednesday morning, the NYPD said. Police said officers responded to a 911 call for a wellness check just before 10:20 a.m. at 640 Ditmas Avenue in Kensington. When they arrived, officers found the two people “unconscious and unresponsive,” according to the N...

Two men on Long Island are accused of posing as contractors to make home repairs, and then causing even more damage to victims’ houses as part of a home improvement scam, police said. Police said the alleged scammers caused more damage to make more money, and in some cases took deposits for bigger jobs before taking off. The men would…...

NJ Transit and a union representing its rail engineers will have more time try work out a labor dispute under an executive order President Joe Biden signed Wednesday. The White House said in a statement that the president authorized the creation of a Presidential Emergency Board aimed at helping the state’s transit agency and Brotherhood of L...

Madison Square Garden is celebrating Billy Joel’s final show of his historic residency with a pop-up Wednesday and Thursday. Fans will be able to visit “Billy Joel 150,” a pop-up featuring exclusive “final show” merchandise in Chase Square at Madison Square Garden. The pop-up was open Wednesday through 3 p.m. For fans ...

A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader’s endorsement of a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death, prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing new terrorism charges.

A 2-year-old boy is in the hospital after he was shot in the hand and foot at a home in Monroe on Tuesday night, according to police. Police officers and EMS responded to the intersection of Route 110 and Osborn Lane at 9:21 p.m. to investigate an emergency medical incident and found the 2-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to…