NYC Council Members Make Push For Plastic Bag Legislation
Councilman Brad Lander, D-Brooklyn, said the bill would require retail and grocery stores to charge customers a dime for each single-use plastic bag.
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Councilman Brad Lander, D-Brooklyn, said the bill would require retail and grocery stores to charge customers a dime for each single-use plastic bag.
Suffolk County police said the women stole more than $2,000 worth of clothing, handbags and outerwear from the store and then fled.
Executive Ed Day says the financially troubled school district is failing and losing children to the penal system.
Retailers will be required by local law to display signs warning consumers of the dangers of liquid nicotine, which is not regulated by the federal government.
The victim, who was in his 20s, was shot and killed at Ocean Parkway near Quentin Road in Midwood at around 7 a.m.
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The 15-year-old pleaded guilty Monday to third-degree assault, which carries a penalty of up to one year behind bars for juveniles.
Residents are on edge as police continue to search for a knife-wielding suspect wanted for robberies on the Upper West Side.
Two men were shot and wounded late Monday afternoon in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn.
A fight over parking the Bronx last week escalated to the point where one man was killed, and the other was charged with manslaughter, police said.
People in Astoria, Queens said an elm tree on one block of 34th Street was a historic landmark, and said they should have been notified before it got chopped up.
The NYPD took to Twitter Monday to bring attention to a pair of knifepoint robberies on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Adams said that Brooklyn residents need to learn from the deaths of 7 children killed in a blaze that investigators believe was started by a hot plate.
