Upstate New York

An upstate New York man shot his companion with a crossbow while she was holding the couple’s 3-week-old daughter, killing the child and injuring the woman, authorities said. Sheriff’s deputies and emergency medical workers responded to a 911 call and found the injured woman and baby at a home in the town of Colesville shortly after 5 a.m. Monday,...

The case of a limousine company operator accused in a crash that killed 20 people out celebrating birthdays in upstate New York nearly five years ago appears headed to jury deliberations much faster than expected. Nauman Hussain, operator of Prestige Limousine, is charged with criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in the Schoharie crash that killed 17 friends and family…

During opening statements Monday, special prosecutor Frederick Rench said Hussain intentionally failed to follow regulations for vehicle maintenance and had not replaced the brakes on the limo.

Two New Jersey high students were killed in a car crash off an Upstate New York highway, according to police and school officials.

The Upstate New York Poison Center revealed the top 5 products that children were poisoned with at home in 2022. Household cleaning products, like bleach and laundry pods, came in as the top product with the most exposure calls coming to the poison center. The second product with the most calls into the poison center has to do with an…

A murder charge against a New York State Police trooper accused of deliberately ramming an SUV during a pursuit, causing the vehicle to flip and leading to the death of an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl, has been dropped — and the victim’s family is outraged.

A judge dropped the top charge of murder against the New York state trooper accused of killing and 11-year-old. Jessica Cunnington reports.

The startup union that clinched a historic labor victory at Amazon earlier this year is slated to face the company yet again, aiming to rack up more wins that could force the reluctant retail behemoth to the negotiating table. This time, the Amazon Labor Union and the nation’s second-largest private employer are facing off in the town of Schodack,...

Federal investigators haven’t been able to determine why prominent personal injury attorney Steve Barnes lost control of his plane and crashed in 2020, killing him and his niece.

The firefighter said the party, held at a private home in a wealthy section of the city, featured a display mocking Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the 19th century, with the holiday’s flags displayed over buckets of fried chicken

A New York man and woman face fines of $500 each after they took a raccoon to a pet store to shop for food and a store worker ratted them out, authorities said.

A woman in western New York is now receiving mail from the distant past.

A woman in New York is now receiving mail from the distant past — written by relatives who have since passed away.

A woman evicted from a house in upstate New York left her landlord a parting gift: nearly 60 malnourished rabbits hopping from room to room and in the basement. The woman now faces six misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty charges, according to the Niagara Gazette. Authorities said they chased down 57 rabbits Thursday from the home near Niagara Falls. Police were…

Carl Paladino, a Republican running for Congress in western New York, said Thursday he was wrong to invoke Adolf Hitler when he said in an interview last year he was “the kind of leader we need today” because of his ability to rally crowds.

A western New York man was arraigned on a reckless endangerment charge Thursday after a round he fired while target shooting struck a window at the Hill Cumorah complex, leading tourists to take cover and prompting a massive police presence at the religious site, state police said.

Hundreds of cockroaches were released during an altercation that broke out at an arraignment in a New York courthouse Tuesday, shutting down the courthouse for the remainder of the day for fumigation.

A courthouse in upstate New York was closed for fumigation Tuesday after hundreds of cockroaches were released during an altercation that broke out at an arraignment, according to court officials.

Proponents say the production of foie gras — the fattened liver of a duck or goose — is cruel to the animals because it involves force feeding, but farms say the loss of the vital New York City market would jeopardize their operations

“Be Prepared” may be the motto for the Boy Scouts, but a 12-year-old from New York was anything but prepared for the encounter he had while on a recent camping trip, which resulted in his leg in the jaws of a black bear.