Mayor Seeks Steeper Fines For Cabbies Who Refuse Rides
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is calling for steeper penalties for taxicab drivers who refuse rides based on the passenger's destination.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg is calling for steeper penalties for taxicab drivers who refuse rides based on the passenger's destination.
Libya exports less than 2-percent of the world's oil, and that fuel is weeks away from actually being sold at the pump. So why are gas prices here steadily on the rise now?
Was it murder or suicide for hire? That's the question in a Manhattan courtroom where Kenneth Minor is facing murder charges.
Police warn residents they need to think twice about what they're throwing away in the recycling bin.
The mayor of Hoboken wants to make the city pedestrian and bike friendly. That could mean adding more bike lanes in an already congested community.
A Long Island priest was being credited with saving the life of one of his parishioners on Thursday after an elderly man accidently set himself on fire near the altar.
The Wayne Township police department said they received four complaints yesterday from residents about a fox behaving "strangely."
A longer school day, fewer elective courses, and teacher layoffs are among proposed changes that have the town of Briarcliff Manor up in arms Thursday.
Charges were filed Thursday against a young driver accused in a high-speed crash that killed two of his friends and seriously injured two others.
Two Pennsylvnia natives have arrived back home to the U.S., and are now staying with friends in New Jersey, after narrowly escaping the chaos and unrest in Libya.
Ann Pettway firmly responded "yes sir" when a judge asked if she was pleading not guilty to a kidnapping charge Thursday. She is charged with kidnapping Carlina White in 1987.
Forty sanitation workers staged a work slowdown Thursday protesting work conditions at the West 57th Street facility, saying that while they work at a dump, they don't have to work in it.
Falcone was gunned down Friday during a shootout with 22-year-old Lee Welch, a Catskill native who, police said, had just shot his own wife in front of the couple's 3-year-old daughter.
Sharon McDonough admits she abused her children and dozens of pets, sometimes torturing dogs and cats in the presence of her young daughters in a home that her son called "a concentration camp for the animals.''
A motorcyclist is in critical condition following an accident involving three buses in the Lincoln Tunnel. EMS officials said 28 passengers suffered injuries after hitting their heads.
