Comptroller Scott Stringer Urges Albany To Let NYC Set Own Minimum Wage
City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants the city's minimum wage raised to $11 an hour. The state minimum wage is $8.
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City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants the city's minimum wage raised to $11 an hour. The state minimum wage is $8.
Day laborers' groups said Monday they are changing the way workers do business in New York and around the country.
There is still no suspect in the Valley Cottage murder. On Monday, detectives went over the snow covered yards surrounding the crime scene looking for anything that might indicate who fatally stabbed Peggy Nadell and why.
A dozen city buildings have been slapped with fines, after a newspaper investigation discovered contaminants in their rooftop water tanks.
The incident occurred at the Valley National Bank on South Dean Street around 8 a.m. Monday.
Fearing electronic cigarettes might be rigged to mask marijuana use, some Long Island schools are banning the devices from their campuses.
With the Super Bowl XLVIII just days away, you'd never know it from the New Jersey side of this two-part equation. Some lawmakers say the NFL hasn't endorsed any of its events, leaving New Jersey out of the spotlight and in the cold.
A Union Township, N.J. man was arrested Monday, after authorities found an improvised explosive device and other weaponry Monday at his home.
A man was found dead Monday morning in the restroom at a McDonald's in Hempstead, police said.
After analyzing blood samples from nearly 200 breast cancer survivors over five years, researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center found that six months after taking up yoga, fatigue was reduced by 57 percent and inflammation was cut by up to 20 percent.
An interagency report released Monday says the program would reach 54,000 children who need it by September. By the 2015-16 school year, it would be available to all 73,000 eligible children.
A teenage girl and a little boy were rescued from the roof of a burning home in Rosedale, Queens this past weekend.
In each incident, the victims have been assaulted and robbed of money and personal property while making oil deliveries to homes, police said.
A elderly Chinese immigrant is suing the NYPD and the city, alleging that police officers roughed him up after he jaywalked on the Upper West Side earlier this month.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown announced the indictment of a convict for two rape cases dating back to 1997. Johnny Dupree was indicted Friday on charges of raping two women in Richmond Hill, Queens in separate attacks more than 16 years ago.
