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It's known as incense or potpourri, but it's not the kind you use to make a room smell nice. It's an herbal mixture that's being smoked for a high, and getting many people sick. Now, there's a new effort to get it banned.
The NYPD has been under fire for monitoring mosques, Muslim merchants and student groups. Critics call it race-based spying. But on Monday, many Muslims gathered to say it's not spying; it's good police work, necessary to keep the city safe.
The Bloomberg administration has provided a list to Mount Sinai Medical Center of 40,000 cops who worked at the World Trade Center site after 9/11, but the public advocate says it's not enough.
It's been years since there were tolls in Connecticut, but today there is a public hearing about bringing them back.
"We're tired of hearing case after case of police brutality and savage-like beatings and killings of our teenagers. So policy now has to be changed," said Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson.
The latest hope of overhauling New York politics by creating more competitive elections rests with closed-door horse trading this week by the Legislature's powerful leaders and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo
An upstate New York man is accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and elementary schoolchildren in Saratoga County.
Authorities say squatters may have caused a fire that damaged a vacant Newark home owned by the city's mayor.
The FBI is considering whether to open an investigation into allegations that followers of a New York City rabbi made illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, according to a law enforcement official.
The Fordham Law Muslim Students Association are picketing a university alumni association luncheon where New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is appearing as a guest speaker.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the Health and Human Services regulation on providing free contraceptive services to employees of religiously based institutions is a violation of religious freedom.
In New York and Connecticut, gas is $3.99 a gallon, with higher prices in New York City where the average is now $4.05. On Long Island, gas is selling at $4.02 a gallon.
The United States and Israel are engaged in high stakes diplomacy over what to do about the nuclear threat from Iran. The allies disagree about whether to, when to, and who should bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday on his weekly appearance on WOR Radio that it's "a bit ridiculous'' to say "the NYPD should stop at the border.''
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't mincing words when it comes to what he thinks of NYPD's surveillance of Muslims in the Garden State.
