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It has been a frustrating few days for NJ Transit commuters as the transportation agency dealt with ongoing delays and cancellations in and out of New York Penn Station due to Amtrak’s overhead wires debacle — and Gov. Phil Murphy is letting Amtrak know commuters have had it. In a letter to Amtrak Chairman Anthony Coscia, Murphy voiced ...

Authorities responded to PS 219, a middle school on Gravett Road in Kew Gardens Hills, after getting a call about a possible incident in the cafeteria shortly before 11 a.m. A total of 43 people with minor injuries, 31 of them students, were evaluated at the scene. Eight students and two adults were taken to a hospital with problems consistent...

More than 100 Connecticut pizza makers joined community leaders and elected officials in Washington, D.C. this week to make a special proclamation. “We are here to declare that New Haven is the Pizza Capital of the United States,” said U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-3rd District), a New Haven native. Rep. DeLauro entered the statement into t...

Severe thunderstorm warnings popped up across Connecticut’s Fairfield County as well as Westchester and Putnam counties in New York and all five boroughs of New York City early Thursday. Trees fell in parts of northern New Jersey, where severe thunderstorm warnings remained in effect through mid-morning. Check the latest weather alerts for yo...

Friday marks five years since Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five from New Canaan, disappeared. There has been no sign of her after she dropped her children off at school on May 24, 2019. She is presumed dead and has legally been declared dead. Next week, Michelle Troconis will be sentenced after being found guilty on charges connected to the…...

New York City plans to build a memorial to honor U.S. military members killed while serving in Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks.

Former President Donald Trump plans to take his campaign act to a Bronx stage later Thursday, with an evening rally planned at Crotona Park in the southern part of the borough. The rally is scheduled for 6 p.m. Security measures were well underway early Thursday. The Bronx rally will be Trump’s first event open to the general public as......

Spending a day at the Jersey Shore may be a bit brighter in some popular destinations, with new bans on certain items now in place. Here’s what not to bring on the sand this summer.

A Queens man who fought to have his murder conviction overturned in a stray bullet killing a decade ago is once again behind bars, now facing charges stemming from a shooting death in 2023.

Thursday is panning out to be a nightmare for commuters as transit woes continue. Mere hours after NJ Transit warned its passengers of ongoing delays and cancellations, PATH announced that because of a signal problem at around 11 a.m., its own service is disrupted with Hoboken to 33 Street and Hoboken to World Trade PATH train service suspended. Ho...

The remains found submerged in a creek in New Jersey have been identified as those of a man missing since 1982, the local prosecutor’s office said. Earlier this month, a number of different local and county agencies began an investigation into artifacts recovered from Overpeck Creek in the town of Ridgefield Park. The artifacts which were sub...

There were no reports of injuries or property damage.

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit is looking for two men accused of attacking a person with a metal pipe in what may have been an anti-LGTBQ attack in Brooklyn.