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Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), the new speaker of the New York State Assembly, said Thursday that raising the minimum wage and expanding higher education access are among his priorities as he settles into his position.
Vandalism on Staten Island has turned up in the form of hateful messages on outdoor works of art.
Forty-six New Jersey lottery winners from July 2013 to July 2014 used Social Security numbers of dead people to collect their winnings, the state auditor said.
Two people have been arrested for allegedly selling drugs out of a home that houses a daycare center.
The families of almost 70,000 New York City kindergarten children have applied for spots in their favorite schools.
About 200 firefighters battled a fire -- and strong winds -- at a Hempstead apartment complex Thursday.
The chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Thursday that the agency is cooperating with authorities investigating whether his predecessor received preferential treatment from United Airlines.
Three more New York City municipal unions are agreeing to new labor contracts with Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.
A former Merck & Co. senior finance analyst pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Thursday to insider trading charges.
A group of Newark students continues to sit in at the school district's offices and say they will stay until the superintendent meets with them or resigns.
A newborn Jersey girl could not wait to get to the hospital, she arrived into this world on her mother's living room floor.
A man is dead after being shot Thursday in East New York, Brooklyn.
A man was shot and killed in the middle of the day Thursday in a public housing development in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Police released a sketch Thursday in a shooting that left a woman wounded in the Bronx earlier this month.
Democrats are assailing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for questioning President Barack Obama's love of country.
