New York

Two former U.S. Postal Service clerks in New York were charged on Sept. 25, 2026, in a scheme to take gift cards out of the mail. Prosecutors say Pian Pian Wong-Tam, 59, took at least 200 of them, worth $25 to $500 each, from mail she handled at the White Plains processing center. William Wong, […]

A 21-year-old Manhattan native went to a hospital to be treated for a simple broken ankle — only to end up dead because she was given too many painkillers, according to a shocking lawsuit. The heartbroken family of tragic Dale Alice Martin said in court documents that Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut disastrously botched the college student’s care April 10, 2025, when she arrived there to be treated for the ankle she fractured while doing farm work — and was given a lethal cocktail of drugs tha

DELANSON, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Last month, 25 horses were rescued from being illegally transported to Canada for slaughter. Two of those horses, Jolene and The Gambler, are now finding a new home at a local rescue in Delanson. “Oh, I cried because I could only imagine. I can feel like they don’t know they’re safe […]

A military funeral procession in Latham will carry Revolutionary War-era remains Tuesday for burial at the Saratoga National Cemetery.

PUTNAM COUNTY- A State Disaster Emergency has been declared by Gov. Kathy Hochul in response to the growing number of measles cases across rural areas of New York and neighboring states, which enables officials to respond more swiftly to the outbreak and allows healthcare professionals to take additional steps that will help get more New Yorkers vaccinated and tested.

A man identified as being from Rochester when arrested has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for fatally stabbing a Penn Yan truck driver who had taken him in off the side of a road about a month earlier, fed him, and made sure he had shelter. Richard Leo, now 37, admitted in Monroe County Court to killing 40-year-old Daniel Fiero inside a room at the Extended Stay America on Commons Way on January 31, 2026.

Federal prosecutors in Albany say a Rensselaer woman spent almost 17 years signing her dead mother-in-law’s name to checks drawn on an account that Social Security and New York State kept filling. Kimberly Cardella, 59, was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 3 and arraigned on September 18, according to the U.S. Attorney’s... The post A Rensselaer woman is charged with signing her dead mother-in-law’s name to checks for nearly 17 years, taking more than $530,000 from Social Security

A 56-year-old New York construction worker was killed when he became submerged during a water main break near Long Island’s largest mall on Friday morning. Rafael Peralta, of Babylon, was working the line underneath Ring Road outside the Roosevelt Field mall in East Garden City when the water enveloped him at around 11:13 a.m., according to News12 and Nassau County police. Peralta’s coworkers hoisted him out of the hole after he became submerged before first responders administered “life-saving

Nearly a month after a fire destroyed Spencer’s sole grocery store, a putrid smell hangs in the air around the rubble and shopping carts are scattered throughout the wreckage of the former Shurfine Food Mart. It’s a stark reminder of what once stood at the heart of the small Tioga County village.

When Scott Golden and his wife Stephanie Cohen sold their Upper West Side condo in July, they thought they were done with New York’s sky-high taxes. Instead, they were slapped with an additional $48,949 bill on the way out — roughly 25 times their regular property tax bill. The Miami-based couple, who run an insurance brokerage firm, are among the thousands who were retroactively slammed by the state’s controversial new pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes. Scott Golden and his wife Stephanie