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Three women were bitten by a group of pit bulls that started fighting at their New Jersey home Tuesday, drawing an emergency response that ended with two of the dogs shot by police, a top local official says.

Cops are looking for a man they say shoved a 36-year-old into the side of a moving subway at a Brooklyn train station in broad daylight over the weekend, leaving him bleeding from the head in a blindside attack, authorities say. The 36-year-old victim was standing on the northbound R platform at 59th Street shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday when,…...

In the first two rounds of March Madness, we’ve seen a few New Jersey universities get unexpected wins over top-ranked teams in the bracket. Those successes might have some impact outside the basketball court as well.

Two people died and five others were hurt in a mangled crash between cars at a Brooklyn intersection Monday, authorities say. Fire officials responding to the scene at 18th Avenue and 64th Street in Bensonhurst found people in need of extrication from the mangled wreck involving a Toyota Camry and a Honda HRV. A 49-year-old man was behind the wheel...

One man was arrested and another left bloodied as dozens protested a Drag Story Hour event in New York City on Sunday, according to videos shared on social media and in local news reports. At least some of the protesters appeared to be affiliated with the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group. The protest took place outside the LGBTQ Community&#8...

“It’s not just a slogan, it’s not a logo. It’s a spirit.” That’s the message Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered alongside Mayor Eric Adams on Monday before a crowd in Times Square, where the politicians helped launch a new ad campaign on the back of the iconic “I Love New York” slogan of the 1970s. In its up...

DeCamp Bus Lines, based in New Jersey, will be ceasing commuter services to and from New York City effective April 7 after failing to recapture pre-pandemic ridership levels. “As we pass the three-year mark from the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, DeCamp Bus Lines has struggled to recapture daily commuter passengers as work-from-home, telecom...

Stamford police are investigating after someone managed to access an email exchange between a realtor and a person who was attempting to buy a home and tricked the buyer into wiring more than $400,000 into a fraudulent account, according to police. They said the FBI was able to freeze the account and all but $1,000 was returned to the victim…...

New York is the most expensive state to retire in and also has the second-highest adjusted cost of living, behind Alaska, according to WalletHub.

Authorities in Westchester County have released the names of five minors from Connecticut killed in a fiery late-night crash on the Hutchinson River Parkway over the weekend, as investigators work to unravel what went horribly wrong. The 16-year-old driver did not have a driver’s license or permit and may have fallen asleep or become distract...

The Manhattan district attorney’s office gave a Donald Trump ally — a former lawyer who once represented Michael Cohen — the chance to testify before a New York grand jury Monday. Robert Costello was asked to appear by DA Alvin Bragg ‘s office after he claimed he had information undercutting the credibility of Cohen, a key w...

All eyes are on Manhattan this week for the possibility that Donald Trump could be indicted by a grand jury investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. The NYPD was seen erecting barricades Monday outside Trump Tower and Manhattan Criminal Court following the former president’s weekend c...

A grand jury in Manhattan has been hearing testimony since January in the case of hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels allegedly authorized by Donald Trump in 2016. Prosecutors have been investigating since Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen admitted in 2018 that he paid Daniels $130,000 bef...