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Less than a year before he was accused of opening fire and killing 10 people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, 18-year-old Payton Gendron was investigated for making a threatening statement at his high school. New York has a “red flag” law designed to keep firearms away from people who could harm themselves or othe...

Half of the 10 NYC ZIP codes with the highest rolling COVID hospitalization rates right now are in Manhattan.

A teenager and his grandfather are accused of manufacturing AR-15 assault rifles in East Hampton and both have been arrested. Police were contacted by a concerned citizen on Monday who reported she had learned over the weekend about an adult in town manufacturing illegal AR-15 assault rifles. During the investigation, authorities said they identifi...

Shannan Gilbert disappeared on Long Island in May 2010. The search for her exposed a possible serial killer — with nearly a dozen bodies found — but law enforcement has said she wasn’t a victim.

The 11-year-old girl shot and killed when law enforcement sources say two people on a moped opened fire at a group of men on a Bronx street corner in broad daylight has been identified, authorities said Tuesday, as the hunt for the child’s killers intensifies. Kyhara Tay was with family members when she was shot in the stomach while...

Backers said the new facility, New Jersey’s first purpose-built for film and TV production, would create about 600 jobs, with priority going to Newark residents.

A man was stabbed to death inside a Brooklyn grocery store Monday afternoon, police said.

New York Yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes said he deactivated his Twitter account after screenshots surfaced Sunday of tweets from a decade ago that included racial slurs.

The body of a 17-year-old girl from New York who disappeared while visiting South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach on spring break 13 years ago has been found and a sex offender has been charged with murder, kidnapping and rape, authorities said Monday. Brittanee Drexel was last seen April 2009 when she was walking between hotels in Myrtle Beach. Her boyfri...

Police are looking for three strangers who robbed a 75-year-old Brooklyn woman at gunpoint after pretending to be utility workers at her home for an inspection one morning last week, authorities say. According to the NYPD, the trio walked up to the woman’s home, near Beverley Road and East 54th Street, around 8 a.m. Wednesday and identified t...

A 55-year-old woman was found stabbed to death — with wounds to her neck and torso — by NYPD officers responding to a building in Brooklyn Sunday, officials say. Cynthia McLeod lived just a few numbers down from the Van Buren Street address in Stuyvesant Heights where she was found dead around 11 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the...

Police have identified the teen who died after getting stabbed during a fight in Shelton over the weekend. Officers responded to Laurel Glen Drive just before midnight on Saturday and found several teens outside of a home. Police said four people had been stabbed and were taken to the hospital. One of the victims, later identified by police as 17-y...

NYC is preparing to change its COVID alert level for the second time this month. Here’s what an upgrade to “high” alert means for you and what to know about mask protocol going forward.

A new lawsuit is attempting to throw out new political maps setting the boundaries of New York state Assembly districts, a challenge that comes amid a broader legal battle over the state’s redistricting. The lawsuit filed Sunday by a bipartisan group of political activists contends that the maps draw by the legislature are unconstitutiona...