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Strong winds plagued the tri-state area through much of the day Thursday, leaving thousands in the dark a day after a bomb cyclone dumped heavy rain and brought down trees, as well as a building, across the region.

Another round of high tides and continued gusty winds have led to flooding conditions alongs parts of the Jersey Shore Friday afternoon

Don’t stand too close to the streets Thursday if you don’t want to get splattered with dirty rain water, Storm Team 4 says.

A New York City man who knocked on a Pace University student’s dorm room, then pushed his way in and sexually terrorized her as she desperately tried to talk her way out of it has been sentenced to state prison, authorities said.

A 25-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the brutal attack of a woman who was beaten unconscious and then raped on her own Long Island front lawn last year.

Eight teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fatal attack on a Long Island high school student during an after-school fight.

A teenager has been arrested in the stabbing death of a student during a brawl at a pizza shop in Long Island, police said

A 74-year-old woman, a 37-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy have been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting at a New Jersey laundromat, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Some light rain continued to fall on the city and the surrounding area Monday night after a line of strong thunderstorms moved in during the afternoon, bringing torrential rain and threatening flooding for hours.

Tropical Storm Humberto moved away from the Bahamas on Saturday after dumping rain on parts of the archipelago’s northwest region that were already hammered by Hurricane Dorian two weeks ago. Humberto dropped rain on the islands as U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visited the Bahamas to support humanitarian efforts in the wake of Dorian, which hit as a Category 5 storm...

Desperation mounted in the Bahamas on Tuesday as hurricane survivors arriving in the capital by boat and plane were turned away from overflowing shelters. As government officials gave assurances at a news conference that more shelters would be opened as needed, Julie Green and her family gathered outside the headquarters of the island’s emergency management agency, seeking help. “We need...

The streets are filled with smashed cars, snapped power cables, shattered trees and deep silence. At the airport and dock, hundreds of people clamor for seats on airplanes and berths on ships arriving with aid and departing with people who lost their homes when deadly Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas. Nearly a week after disaster roared in from the sea,...

The hurricane death toll is rising in the Bahamas, in what its leader calls “this hour of darkness.” Search and rescue teams were still trying to reach some Bahamian communities isolated by floodwaters and debris Saturday after Hurricane Dorian struck the northern part of the archipelago last Sunday. At least 43 people died. Several hundred people, many of them Haitian...

An aircraft maintenance worker at Miami’s airport allegedly tampered with a critical piece of a passenger plane’s hardware in July to get overtime pay amid a stalled union contract dispute, according to court documents. The American Airlines plane with 150 people on board never left for the scheduled July 17 flight from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas after flight...

A 32-year-old Uber driver has been indicted for allegedly kidnapping a 15-year-old girl after a Sweet 16 party on Long Island earlier this year.

Over 57,000 customers in New Jersey remained without power early Wednesday morning— and authorities warned restoration efforts could last into the weekend.

Authorities battled a four-alarm fire at what was initially described as a “mansion” on Long Island Tuesday, according to fire officials.

Wild weather tore through the tri-state, throttling the region for more than 12 hours as hundreds of thousands of people grappled with flooding conditions, nightmare commutes and lack of electricity — a ferocious end to the heat wave.