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James Daly is eager to make marijuana history on Sunday, when he plans to open the doors to Arbors Wellness, beckon the lengthy line outside and legally start selling recreational pot for the first time in the Midwest. “We’ve worked very hard to be prepared,” said Daly, who owns the medical dispensary that, for now, is among just six shops...

The Metropolitan Opera announced Tuesday that Placido Domingo had agreed to withdraw from his slate of scheduled performances at the opera house following allegations of sexual harassment

A Hempstead town official was arrested Thursday in connection with an ongoing probe out of the Nassau County district attorney’s office, the I-Team has learned.

The deputy commissioner for the Hempstead Department of Buildings was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing thousands from a Republican committee to pay his mortgage, go on a wine trip and get high-end candies. NBC 4 New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A couple was granted $93,000 after Superstorm Sandy to help rebuild their home — now the program that gave them the money is asking for it back

A World War II veteran who served as a state lawmaker in New York for four decades has died.

Organizers of a meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Georgia barred reporters from attending — unless they were African-American. The Wednesday meeting at a church in Savannah was held to try to unite the city’s black community behind a single candidate for mayor in the Nov. 5 election. Signs at the door said “Black Press Only!” White reporters...

Imagine opening your water bill and finding it’s gone up hundreds of dollars. That’s what’s happening in Rockland, and residents are infuriated about the mysterious spike. Roseanne Colletti reports.

After a handful of Suez water customers in Rockland County saw their bills mysteriously spike by hundreds of dollars one recent month, they’re still getting no answers from the utility. Micheline Desselle was among the customers who saw an incredible surge on her November water bill. The 68-year-old retired nurse lives alone, typically pays about $18 a month for water…

A New York state lawmaker who tweeted “Kill yourself!” to a woman who claimed he misused a parking placard later apologized for using “a poor choice of words.”

The deaths of two young orcas in the Pacific Northwest have galvanized Washington state to do more to protect the whales’ dwindling population, NBC News reported. First, a mother orca known as J35 carried her stillborn calf for 17 days. Then a rambunctious young killer whale known for breaching went missing and was soon declared dead. The orcas that spend...

An 83-year-old New Jersey state senator has revealed that she was groped and forcibly kissed by a visitor in her home when she was just a girl.

A New York family is fighting to pass a law that would require schools to notify parents if their child is being bullied in school.

A couple who lost their son Jacobe to suicide is pushing for a law called Jacobe’s Law that would require schools to notify parents if their child is being bullied. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Bullets went flying in Brooklyn, injuring a teenager and a man as well as striking the campaign office of state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, sending dozens of workers inside ducking for cover, officials say.

Bullets went flying in Brooklyn, injuring a teen and a man as well as striking the campaign office of state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, officials say. Tracie Strahan reports.

Hawaii residents covered their faces with masks after a volcano menacing the Big Island for weeks exploded, sending a mixture of pulverized rock, glass and crystal into the air in its strongest eruption of sandlike ash in days. The Kilauea volcano exploded at its summit shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday following two weeks of volcanic activity that sent lava flows...

Many sunscreen makers could soon be forced to change their formulas or be banned from selling the lotions in Hawaii. State lawmakers passed a measure this week that would ban the sale of sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate by 2021 in an effort to protect coral reefs. Scientists have found the two substances can be toxic to coral, which are...

First-term Democratic Congressman Ruben Kihuen of Nevada, who is at the center of sexual harassment allegations, announced Saturday he won’t seek re-election. Kihuen’s announcement came a day after the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into whether Kihuen “may have engaged in sexual harassment” with a campaign aide and a lobbyist.

Former State Sen. Wendy Davis says a fellow lawmaker inappropriately touched her when she served in the state legislature.