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Inspector Woody Ledwith told the Journal News on Wednesday that the blaze started outside the house near electric and gas meters and spread quickly up the vinyl siding and through walls into the ceilings.
Nearly one year after New York became the sixth state in the U.S. to legally recognize same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama announced his support for marriage equality.
Cathy Scalia briefly reclaimed her post on Sunrise Highway in Baldwin Wednesday morning before she ran into some permit woes.
A golf ball, a fish-hook, a sewing needle, a toy dinosaur, and a rubber duck are not necessarily the type of things that you would expect to find in an X-ray of your dogs stomach.
Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold Wednesday for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby's contemporary art sale.
Saying he heard the girl's mother screaming when she couldn't find her daughter, landlord Bobby Singh and his cousin started searching the apartment and building on Croes Avenue before making the tragic discovery.
Police said 40-year-old James Martin was extradited to New York on Wednesday and arrested on charges of murder and rape.
A number of houses owned by countries like Mozambique, Swaziland and Ghana in Westchester County have racked up outstanding local taxes. Now officials are trying to do something about it.
Police sources told CBS 2 the charges stem from two incidents over the last 10 days -- that he exposed himself to an 8-year-old girl and inappropriately touched her.
Thanks to the blockbuster films "The Avengers" and "The Hunger Games" archery is red hot, but for Larry Brown it's been his passion since he was 5, when his dad first taught him to shoot in Queens.
It was morning rush hour in New York City, but things came to a dead stop on the West Side Highway for the convenience of a convoy of New Jersey police officers. Why were cops from across the river stopping traffic in New York?
The injuries on these cats are horrific," Guardians of Rescue's Karen Svonik said. "Two of the mamas were sitting on the shelter, shaking together, the babies strewn about the colony. Somebody viciously pulled the babies out and proceeded to crush them with some type of object."
Jurors deliberated less than an hour before finding Brett-Pierce guilty of the most serious charge in the death of her child, Marchella.
A New York Civil Liberties Union analysis of police department data has found that as the number of police stops has risen dramatically, the number of weapons recovered has stayed practically the same.
Some say the tall feather flags are visual pollution. But business owners say they're very effective advertising tools.
