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Paid agitator Leonard Filipowski, aka Leroy Truth, is scheduled to be arraigned on May 4 after on charges that he assaulted a Union City police officer. It’s unclear when conditions of release Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Dawn Simonetti will seek for the third-degree charge. The indictment by an Essex...

The April 21 blaze occurred at a residential building in the Bronx

The Cipriani Residences Miami supertall luxury tower is officially the tallest residential tower south of New York City, having reached 872 feet, just above the Panorama Tower’s 868 feet. The Arquitectonica-designed building will stand 950 feet tall in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood when it’s completed in 2027. It will eventually...

A Hoboken man was busted with heroin and cocaine following a month-long investigation spurred by concerned residents, officials said Friday. “I commend the thorough work of our Street Crimes Unit, who saw this case from start to finish. We take all resident complaints seriously and will continue to act on them. Drug activity is not tolerated in Hoboken,” Police Chief Steven Aguiar said...

A Harrison man has been charged in connection to a motorized bike crash that took the life of a Kearny woman in February. On Thursday, April 23, 2026, members of the Hudson County Regional Collision Investigation Unit arrested Miguel Aguilar, 44, of Harrison, and charged him with causing death while driving suspended, Hudson County Protector Wayne Mello said.

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said funds raised from the city’s Congestion Relief Zone tolling program will pay for an expansion of the clean truck program. Officials said money raised by the CRZ tolling program would pay for the NYC Clean Trucks Program’s $20 million […] The post Congestion relief funds in NYC to fund...

"We want to see accountability because there are a lot of people's names that are in the files that have not been investigated,” she said.

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ Office of Special Investigation (OSI) said Tuesday it will not bring criminal charges against the NYPD officers who shot and killed Winston Johnson in a Staten Island Home Depot parking lot last year. Investigators said they could not disprove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers’ use of deadly force was legally justified, and noted that a full...

Fire officials said Friday that open doors fueled the five-alarm apartment building inferno that killed two people and hurt nearly a dozen in the Bronx earlier this week. It took just three-and-a-half minutes for firefighters to arrive on scene Tuesday afternoon at the five-story residential building on East 187th Street in Belmont, between Belmont and Cambreleng avenues.

SelectCare has filed a WARN notice confirming layoffs affecting more than 50 employees. The filing also states the company is closing its New York office, which will result in job cuts. The affected employees are not represented by a union. SelectCare is Laying Off More Than 50 Employees. According to...