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One man died and another person was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after and explosion obliterated a two-story home in South River. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Another lawsuit has been filed by the Town of Hempstead against the MTA in regards to the controversial congestion pricing plan. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports. 

When you think of the arts and music Seaside Heights usually wouldn’t come to mind, but city officials are trying to change that. NBC New York’s Ted Greenberg reports.  

Student’s at Rutgers in New Brunswick had their finals interrupted and delayed due to a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports. 

Nearly four months after everything was burned away by a rumored act of arson, a Goodwill on the Jersey Shore is has finally reopened. NBC New York’s Ted Greenberg reports. 

An NYPD officer accidentally discharged his gun inside a Columbia University administration building while clearing out protesters camped inside, the department disclosed late Thursday.

One man died and another person suffered critical injuries after an explosion at a suburban New Jersey house flattened the residence, according to officials.

A fire left a Bushwick supermarket burned and then spread to other neighboring buildings, displacing dozens of people. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on a Long Island beach, surprising people gathered on the sand to watch a beautiful sunset. One of the beachgoers captured intense video showing the moment the pilot brought the plane down on Mount Sinai’s Cedar Beach — and it wasn’t the first emergency landing for the particular plane. NB...

New NYPD bodycam video showed officers cut through barricades at Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus, as well as what happened once they got inside, confronting dozens of protesters who had broken into the building. There were also new details on who was arrested, with 40% of protesters taken in at City College and Columbia having no af...

Former President Donald Trump stopped by a midtown firehouse to deliver pizza to firefighters after spending the day in a lower Manhattan courthouse as a defendant, listening to testimony from the lawyer who represented the two women who say they had affairs with him and received payments for the rights to their stories. NBC New York’s Chris ...

A major drug raid today in Plainfield targeted what Homeland Security Investigations agents said were members of a significant Blood gangs crew that was part of a major narcotics operation.

Prosecutors said Isis Navarro Reyes — who also goes by Beraly Navarro — sold fake Ozempic and other misbranded drugs by posting videos on TokTok. Investigators say she had done it for a year before she was busted trying to sell the drug to an undercover officer.