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A 64-year-old homeless man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to luring a 3-year-old boy with a balloon and sexually abusing him in 2019 and then abusing an 8-year-old girl in a Queens mall when he was released on bail two months later, prosecutors say. Luis Olivo, whose last known address was a shelter in…

A 35-year-old woman died in a fire at a NYCHA building in Queens early Saturday, the NYPD said.  Firefighters responding to a report of a fire at a South Jamaica Houses building on 159th Street in Jamaica around 12:40 a.m. on Saturday found the woman unconscious and unresponsive inside a second-floor apartment, police said.  The woman was pronounced dead...

A 35-year-old woman died in a fire at a NYCHA building in Queens early Saturday, the NYPD said.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake originating 70 miles off the coast of Jamaica was felt in the Caribbean nation and also in Miami on Tuesday. 

Police are looking for a man who grabbed a woman in Queens, dragged her into an alleyway and raped her last week, authorities said Tuesday. The 27-year-old woman was walking along Jamaica Avenue around 4 a.m. Saturday when the suspect, who was walking ahead of her, stopped suddenly. She went to pass by him — and that’s when he grabbed…

An attacker dragged a woman into an alleyway and raped her in Queens early Saturday morning, the NYPD said.  The 27-year-old woman was walking along Jamaica Avenue, near 163rd Street in Jamaica, around 4 a.m. on Saturday when the man walking ahead of her stopped walking, police said.  When the woman tried to pass him, the man dragged her...

An attacker dragged a woman into an alleyway and raped her in Queens early Saturday morning, the NYPD said. Ken Buffa reports.

A pipe failure — not cooking grease — caused a Thanksgiving weekend sewer backup that poured filth into more than 100 homes in Queens, The New York Times reported Thursday. After the Nov. 30 mess, city Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Vincent Sapienza told reporters that officials were “under the assumption” that a grease blockage was to blame. But the Times said it...

As families dealt with the vile flooding and foul odor for another day, officials went to visit those effected by the disgusting sewage pouring into their homes, and pledged to hire a contractor to have it all cleaned up. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

All New Jersey Transit’s Morris & Essex Midtown Direct trains to Penn Station will be diverted to Hoboken during the weekslong overhaul at Penn Station this summer, Gov. Chris Christie announced Tuesday.

An 84-year-old woman died a devastating fire tore through a home in Jamaica, Queens, Wednesday night. Several other people, including the woman’s husband were rescued. Now, questions emerge about what started that fire and if it could have been prevented. Roseanne Colletti reports.

A New York City man pleaded guilty on Thursday to having nearly 6,000 photos of children being sexual abused as well as charges of that he had sex with a dog, the district attorney’s office said.

Results from new DNA testing show a mystery person’s genetic material inside the getaway van that was used in a violent 1997 armored car robbery.

Results from new DNA testing show a mystery person’s genetic material inside the get-away van that was used in a violent 1997 armored car robbery — which family members of a man imprisoned for the crime say is enough to prove he was not a part of the heist. The I-Team’s Chris Glorioso reports.

A man and a woman have been indicted on kidnapping and other charges in the case of a victim who was abducted and tied up in the basement of a Bronx bodega, where he was beaten and terrified over a three-day ordeal.

A Long Island man allegedly tried to cover up the murder of a 66-year-old woman in Queens with the help of his two kids, authorities said Wednesday.

For decades, the message to women in track and field was crystal clear: get pregnant, lose sponsorship money. A rebellion led by some of the sport’s top runners, Allyson Felix, Kara Goucher and Alysia Montano, is helping to change that. Two months after the U.S. women’s soccer players stated their case for equal pay, women in track and field come...

Everton Simpson squints at the Caribbean from his motorboat, scanning the dazzling bands of color for hints of what lies beneath. Emerald green indicates sandy bottoms. Sapphire blue lies above seagrass meadows. And deep indigo marks coral reefs. That’s where he’s headed. He steers the boat to an unmarked spot that he knows as the “coral nursery.” ”It’s like a...