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A smoking manhole fire spewed a foul-smelling grayish haze into the air on the Upper West Side for at least an hour Friday morning, freaking out the neighborhood. Erica Byfield reports.

A central New York man has been asked to remove a Nazi flag on his property.

A fraternity suspended at Syracuse University over an offensive video said in an apologetic statement on Friday that the activities were intended as a “satirical sketch” depicting an uneducated, intolerant person.

Protesters at Syracuse University have demanded that the school release video showing racist and sexist behavior by members of a now-suspended fraternity.

A Binghamton University student has pleaded not guilty to murder in the stabbing death of a 19-year-old freshman in a college dorm.

A Binghamton University student has pleaded not guilty to murder in the stabbing death of a 19-year-old freshman in a college dorm. Rana Novini reports.

After a daylong search by multiple police agencies, a Binghamton University student was taken into custody as a suspect in the stabbing death of a 19-year-old freshman, police said Monday.

A student from Westchester County was stabbed to death at Binghamton University. Ida Siegal reports.

Authorities in New York have rescued over 100 neglected animals from a farm.

A New York man has admitted striking a 10-year-old girl with a screwdriver, dragging her behind a vehicle with a rope and forcing hot sauce into her duct tape-covered mouth.

It’s still not clear how a 49-year-old skier whose disappearance sparked a massive search on a snowy New York mountainside showed up a week later, nearly 3,000 miles away, in California, confused and in ski clothes.

A police dog in northern New York has died during a training exercise.

A New York school district will no longer invite an outside group to give sex education talks after a presenter from the group compared a girl’s virginity to chewing gum.

The New York Mets are buying the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs as they work toward centering more of their minor league baseball operations in their home state.

Parole has been denied to prison tailor Joyce Mitchell, who was sweet-talked into providing hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools that two killers used in a prison break that’s the subject of a Showtime miniseries being filmed in the region where it happened.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani tells NBC 4 New York he is “doing well” after undergoing emergency knee surgery following a fall over the weekend.

A prison inmate serving a life sentence for his parents’ slayings said guards at a maximum-security New York state prison allowed him to fix locks inside the facility before an elaborate escape plan he developed was uncovered two years ago. In an interview with The Post-Standard, Gordon “Woody” Mower told the Syracuse newspaper that guards at the Auburn Correctional Facility…

An inmate at a maximum-security prison claimed he repeatedly practiced a daring escape plan involving a coffin-like box hidden under tons of sawdust and that guards never noticed what he was up to.

The upstate New York prison guard who was sentenced to up to seven years in prison for her role in helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup is pleading for clemency in a handwritten letter obtained exclusively by NBC 4 New York. Jonathan Dienst reports.