A  school board member in Connecticut who was accused of sexually assaulting a teen is resisting calls to resign from his post

A driver hit and killed a 26-year-old man in Brooklyn before fleeing the scene, the NYPD said.  The driver hit the man on 19th Avenue, near 86th Street, in Bath Beach around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, police said.  Family and police later identified the man as Jose Contla of Brooklyn. His family said Contla had just parked his car...

The Transportation Security Administration says it won’t allow employees to use the China-owned video app TikTok to create social media posts for the agency after the Senate’s top Democrat raised concerns about potential national security issues

A judge has imposed a 42-year sentence on the first of four defendants to stand trial in the death of a 9-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet as she slept in her bed in her New Jersey home. The Cumberland County judge on Friday imposed a 25-year term for an aggravated manslaughter conviction and a consecutive 17-year term on…

Two men were killed in a shooting early Saturday after an argument broke out at a Connecticut bar, police said. Police said the two men were at Elizabeth’s Bar & Restaurant in Bloomfield when they got into a dispute with another person at the bar. Police said the fight spilled outside to the parking lot and shots were fired....

A thief grabbed a 77-year-old woman’s purse — dragging her to the ground and sending her flying into a fence — in an attack that was caught on surveillance video, the NYPD said.  The woman was waiting at a bus stop on Cooper Street, near Evergreen Avenue, in Bushwick around 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 6 when the man approached her…

The Empire State Development’s life science initiative would provide $ 20 million in initial funding to identify and recruit 200,000 people for genetic testing

Greenpoint Beer & Ale is re-opening its doors to customers just in time for New York City Beer Week after brewing offsite for more than a year

A man arrested outside a New Jersey elementary school last year with a gun and more than 100 rounds of ammunition was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison

The DA said that while he was not in the office at the time of Blanchard Glaudin’s December arrest for a rape that occurred the month before, he would instruct his team to review the case thoroughly

A college student was found dead in his home of the flu after a garbled 911 call left rescuers with no means of locating him, authorities said.

There’s one name that keeps coming up more than any other at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial: Annabella Sciorra

The state University at Albany is investigating whether an off-campus coronavirus-themed party violated the college’s student code of conduct

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving will have arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder and miss the rest of the season

Egg Harbor Township’s refusal to allow Seaview Harbor residents to join Longport was “not arbitrary or unreasonable,” the judge ruled

The site contained over 10,000 works of art, as some renderings were temporary and were eventually painted over with the permission of the artists.

The acting ICE director said the new law’s restrictions could hinder his officers from assisting in ongoing criminal investigations involving stolen or wanted vehicles

President Donald Trump is ready for a king’s welcome in India when he arrives Monday for a packed two-day visit

South Korea’s president has put the country on its highest alert for infectious diseases and says officials should take “unprecedented, powerful” steps to fight a viral outbreak

Bernie Sanders has cemented his status as the Democrats’ national front-runner for the presidential nomination after the Vermont senator’s resounding victory in Nevada’s caucuses

The Fashion Institute of Technology says it’s investigating a controversial runway show that reminded some observers of blackface

South Korea reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections Saturday with more than 400 cases mostly linked to a church and a hospital, and the death toll in Iran climbed to six in the wake of a new virus that started in China but has spread globally

U.S. regulators have approved a new type of cholesterol-lowering drug aimed at millions of people who don’t get enough help from widely used statin pills like Lipitor and Crestor

Iranian state TV is announcing the first partial results from the country’s parliamentary elections

According to police, two female students woke up to a strange man standing over them as they slept, and in one instance the victim said the intruder who broke into her dorm room also sexually assaulted her

In the coronavirus outbreak, it’s not the rising numbers that are worrying experts: It’s that they can’t trace where some disease clusters started

A festive mood has enveloped Ahmedabad, in India’s northwestern state of Gujarat ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting there on Monday with President Donald Trump, whom he’s promised millions of adoring fans

The mother claimed at the time of 2014 arrest that her 5-year-old son disappeared when the two were at a carnival in May 1991, but investigators doubted her story — which changed several times

Federal officials will have access to the state’s motor vehicle database but not to drivers’ Social Security numbers, Cuomo said

A lawyer for the 76-year-old Silver declined comment, though it is likely that attorneys will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case

What started as a quick trip to a bookstore in a New Jersey town for a teenager and her mother quickly turned into a horrifying bathroom experience — and an arrest

Mexico has extradited the son of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to face drug charges in the United States, leading to fears his gang may stage retaliations. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that Ruben Oseguera will appear in Washington D.C. to answer a drug-distribution indictment.

A video of a 9-year-old Australian boy telling his mother that he wants to die after being bullied at school for his dwarfism has gone viral on social media

South Korea is now the newest front in a widening global outbreak centered in China and now reverberating elsewhere

President Donald Trump is apparently not a fan of Oscar winner “Parasite,” his biggest complaint being that the movie was made in South Korea

The victims of a racist shooting rampage in Germany are being mourned by family and friends

Iranians have voted for a new parliament, with turnout seen as a key measure of support for Iran’s leadership at the time of a sanctions-linked economic downturn and diplomatic isolation

An Olympic wrestler says a University of Michigan doctor touched him inappropriately during medical exams at the school and made the behavior seem normal

The DA said that while he was not in the office at the time of Blanchard Glaudin’s December arrest for a rape that occurred the month before, he would instruct his team to review the case thoroughly

The nurses that spoke with NBC New York said change can’t arrive soon enough, and the help they need is an emergency — as all too often it’s them who are becoming the patients

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Japan’s health minister said the last cruise ship passengers who tested negative for a new virus will leave the Diamond Princess on Friday after a much-criticized quarantine of the vessel ended

The jury has concluded deliberations for a third day in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial without reaching a verdict

The company says the pipeline would carry enough gas to heat 2.3 million homes, but opponents say it is unneeded and will encourage the burning of fossil fuels at a time when climate change is causing serious harm

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An investigation is underway after rocks smashed through vehicles with a family of four and a college student inside during separate incidents on the same road in Medford and Medford Lakes.

A private island off the Jersey Shore is up for sale for $200,000 — but don’t expect to build a dream beach house on the property.

Victoria’s Secret, beset by falling sales and uncomfortable questions about its billionaire founder who has run the company for five decades, is being sold

Police in a northern New Jersey town corralled a number of pigs who escaped from an auction market and made their way to the police station parking lot. Hackettstown Police say they received a call about four pot belly pigs on the lam shortly before noon Wednesday. Three of the pigs made their way to the police station parking lot…

A worker at a Bronx deli was shot and killed as he stood behind the counter while the gunman fired multiple shots, police said.

A New York mother has been arrested and charged with murder months after her newborn child was found dead in a vacant lot.

The case of an ex-convict charged with forcing some college students into prostitution after moving in on campus with his daughter has raised questions about the screening and security of student housing

According to a criminal complaint, Charles Barry presented himself as an MTA employee in an effort to dupe a tourist, whom he sold a dud MetroCard for $ 32 — just one of his many alleged scam victims

The man is accused of leaving a message for Rep. Schiff in which he threatened to “put a bullet” in his forehead, and threatened to drive someone to “assassinate” Sen. Schumer

A man has been charged in the killing of two men, including one who was hacked to death with a machete in New York state’s Long Island, police said

Investigators allege the 31-year-old was asleep in a bedroom with a loaded .9mm handgun next to him when his young son took the weapon and went into another room and accidentally shot himself

From the opening bell, Democratic presidential foes have unleashed an aggressive verbal assault on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised new questions about Bernie Sanders’ take-no-prisoners politics in a contentious debate Wednesday night on the Las Vegas Strip

“You have a knot in your stomach,” Kerik said, as he recounted that Trump told him he was signing the pardon as the two spoke

Several officers entered a home and found the man armed with a knife, which he refused to drop and used to stab a police dog they released on him

The Knicks responded to the ruling by saying they hoped for a better relationship with Oakley, a popular player who spent a decade with the franchise but has been critical of the team under Dolan

The judge did say the case for sending the pachyderm to a sanctuary was “extremely persuasive,” but denied a group’s effort to give Happy the elephant human-like rights

About 500 passengers have left the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the end of a quarantine that failed to stop the spread of a virus among passengers and crew

China has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the The Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column the government has deemed to be racist and slanderous

New virus cases in China are continuing to fall as protective suit-clad inspectors go door-to-door in the epicenter to find every infected person