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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city’s current police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, has agreed to remain in the post, a major coup for the incoming mayor as he moves to assuage concerns over his past criticisms of the New York Police Department. In a statement,...

Drunk driver Daniel Hyden — a substance abuse counselor, who wrote a book titled The Sober Addict — was convicted of killing four people and injuring several others in New York City, officials say. Prosecutors charged Hyden, 46, was boozed up behind the wheel when his speeding pickup truck crashed through a chain...

Families in New York City are struggling to put food on the table, according to a new report released by the charity Robin Hood.

Police are searching for two female suspects in separate attacks in Manhattan and Brooklyn this month, including one in which a woman was shoved to the ground and another in which a man was punched in the face on a city bus.

A woman faces two life sentences after being convicted of murdering an 18-year-old who had been visiting family in New Jersey when she was taken from the relatives home, driven back to Maryland and killed. Iris Alonzo-Salgado, 24, of Frederick, Maryland is the first of four people charged to be...

NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — Newark officials are asking for help in locating a missing 35-year-old woman who reportedly suffers from bipolar disorder and depression. Officials say Jessica Blair was reported missing on Friday. Blair was reportedly last seen in the 600 block of Irving Turner Boulevard. Blair is described as...

Officials say the fire was reported at 58 Telford St. around 8:19 a.m. Tuesday.

The basics: $1.2M El Barrio Wellness opens in Newark, offering bilingual, trauma-informed mental health services Services include individual/family therapy, group sessions, community workshops...

A 60-year-old man was killed after a fire broke out in a multi-family home in a Newark on Tuesday morning. The fire began in a house on the first block of Telford Street, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said. A resident of the upstairs apartment, Wilber Pierre, died of...

Former Dumont Mayor Andrew LaBruno allegedly sprayed an unknown substance into his hand and placed it over the mouth of a teenage boy, causing the incapacitated victim to become dizzy, and then forced him to perform fellatio on him, a criminal complaint read at a court hearing this afternoon. The...