Happenings August, 15
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Nearsightedness is going up at an alarming rate across the country and the world, and many people blame too much touchscreen time for kids on phones, tablets and computers.
Authorities say 41-year-old Djems Jean-Paul faces charges of manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
The search is on for a man who police say was trying to get away from a group of men chasing him when he unintentionally slashed a 6-year-old boy in the forehead inside a mosque in the Bronx.
Johnny Tsacoumangos from Kirkwood, MO has big dreams of becoming a sanitation worker and he's ready to get his hands dirty.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is putting together a proposal to charge motorists more for entering the most congested parts of Manhattan.
A gun battle broke in Brooklyn Monday afternoon, when thieves tried to hold up a gas station owned by a retired correction officer who ended up being wounded.
The president delivered a statement Monday about the deadly attack in Charlottesville over the weekend.
Judge Robert Downer said during a bond hearing Monday he would appoint a lawyer for 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr.
An employee of "Top Dog" in Berkley, California has been fired after being photographed at the Charlottesville, Virginia protest and being outed on twitter as an alleged alt-right protester.
Pauline Aluska, 54, was killed overnight by a hit-and-run driver that struck her as she crossed Montauk Highway at South 13th Street in Lindenhurst and left her for dead.
The worker was stuck on scaffolding at a construction site on West 14th Street and 9th Avenue M.
It happened just before 7:30 p.m. Sunday at an apartment building on Norman Street.
Police officers in Woolwich Township spent most of Saturday morning trying to track down an escaped pig.
