New York State Police

New York’s inspector general says an internal probe by state police into a drug task force allowed members who engaged in misconduct to retire “in good standing” without being held accountable

The move would change the agency’s status as one of the few primary state law enforcement agencies in the nation without body or dashboard cameras

Five students and two adult bus monitors were hurt when a pickup truck rear-ended a mini school bus, slamming the kids’ vehicle into a guardrail and causing it to flip over on a New York highway Thursday, officials say. The injuries to the kids in the accident — in the eastbound lanes of Route 17, between exits 112 and 113…

The body of a retired New York State Police investigator has returned home to Massachusetts. Ryan Fortini died on New Year’s Day from 9/11-related cancer, officials said. State Police tweeted video Sunday of officers and first responders saluting the plane carrying Fortini’s body as it took off for Logan International Airport. After the 2001 terrorist attacks at the World...

The body of a retired New York State Police investigator has returned home to Massachusetts.

Three children were badly hurt when a woman fell asleep behind the wheel at caused a violent crash in Westchester County on New Year’s Day, State Police said in a statement Thursday. Maribel Mota, a 49-year-old from Waterbury, Connecticut, was driving a Toyota Corolla northbound on I-684 in Bedford, New York, around 11 a.m. when she fell asleep, authorities...

A 61-year-old school bus driver in Westchester County has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk — with a blood alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit — on the job, New York State Police say. William Mendez was taken into custody Wednesday on a charge of aggravated DWI Leandra’s Law, a felony crime even for first-time offenders. It was…

The ferocious storms that tore through the tri-state area late Thursday, triggering rare tornado warnings, have been blamed for the death of a man in New York and left at least one New Jersey community a “disaster” zone.

A teenager ran into a New Jersey high school after he was shot while walking home, police said

Two 17-year-old high school students have been charged for allegedly yelling racial slurs at a younger girl, and one of the boys urinated on one of the victims, police say.

The West Point cadet who went missing last week has been found dead, the U.S. Military Academy announced Wednesday.

A man in Queens says that a large bolt fell from an overhead subway track and smashed through his sunroof as he drove below

The 17-year-olds were seen on video hurling obscene and racially offensive slurs at two younger African-American students, and one of them urinating on a girl. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

The West Point cadet who went missing last week has been identified as the search continues for the fifth day

Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested for allegedly urinating on a younger girl and yelling racial slurs while all three attended a high school football game in New Jersey last week.

An extensive search is underway for a cadet at West Point who has gone missing. The U.S. Military said the cadet was last seen at the academy on Friday. He was scheduled to participate in a military skills competition this past weekend but failed to show up.

A 67-year-old woman was killed in a dog attack in her Dutchess County, New York, home, authorities say.

The mother of toddler siblings who died minutes apart after being put to bed in their Bronx home in 2017 has been indicted on manslaughter and assault charges.