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A gunman fatally shot a 45-year-old man in the head inside a Brooklyn apartment building early Saturday, police said. Cops responding to a report of a person shot inside the Somers St. apartment building near Fulton St. in Ocean Hill found victim Steven Battle sprawled out on the floor, bleeding from the head. EMS...

A feisty, fearless Queens mother who thwarted her daughter’s kidnapping slammed the “disgusting” attacker and taunted him during his sentencing. Adriana Alvarez said her piece inside Queens Criminal Court Thursday prior to the sentencing of George Vassiliou, the stalker who tried kidnapping her 18-year-old daughter,...

It's been 60 years since Bloody Sunday , when a peaceful civil rights march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama turned violent as police attacked demonstrators. Advocates in New York City have organized two marches to mark the occasion in what they say is a call for unity. The first march will take place...

Measles cases are rising in the U.S., including confirmed cases in New York. As of this writing, there have been 164 cases nationwide in 2025. According to the CDC, the majority of cases are from kids between the ages of 5 and 19. 34 percent of all cases are under the age of 5.

Binghamton, NY – A fast-moving band of heavy snow is sweeping across parts of central New York and northern Pennsylvania this morning, creating hazardous travel conditions with sudden drops in visibility and gusty winds. According to the National Weather Service in Binghamton, the snow band was observed at 6:08...

The ex-boyfriend of a Bronx woman who was found dead in a suitcase in Yonkers has been arrested. Pamela Alcantara's body was found in a red suitcase left at Saw Mill River Creek on Thursday morning, police sources say. The 26-year-old had been reported missing Sunday after she missed church services, which friends...

A bank robber released on parole in January held up another bank last week in Manhattan, police said. Fernando Rios, 46, walked into an Upper West Side CitiBank on Feb. 27 and passed a teller a note that threatened, “This is a bank robbery. If you move, I will shoot you,” according to a criminal complaint. “Don’t...

Negotiations between the governor's office and the union representing thousands of striking NY correction officers broke down early Saturday.

This is some turnstile justice. A repeat offender was free to punch a 37-year-old pregnant woman in the face on a Queens subway train last month after he committed three other similar transit attacks in the past four months — but got repeatedly let back out to do more violence, sources said. Christopher Benitez, 33,...

Advocates rallied in Harlem after Messiah Nantwi, a 22-year-old Bronx man died at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Central New York last week. Reports suggest his death occurred after he was violently beaten by guards. Nantwi was serving a five-year sentence for second-degree criminal possession of a weapon...