Bloomberg Appears With Boston Mayor In Super Bowl Commercial Urging Gun Control
The mayors of New York and Boston are rooting for opposing teams in the Super Bowl. But they're on the same side when it comes to pushing for stricter gun-control laws.
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The mayors of New York and Boston are rooting for opposing teams in the Super Bowl. But they're on the same side when it comes to pushing for stricter gun-control laws.
"Thank you FL!" an exuberant Romney tweeted minutes after the race was called. "While we celebrate this victory, we must not forget what this election is really about: defeating Barack Obama."
Some Brooklyn residents who want to curb crime on their street by installing surveillance cameras say that the city is standing in their way.
Republican David Storobin and Jewish supporters are demanding that Democrat Lew Fidler apologize for saying Storobin was "embarrassed by his ties to skinheads and neo-Nazi groups and white supremacist groups."
Under a new plan announced by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano on Monday, four of the county's eight police precincts would close and be turned into community policing centers to save money.
Assemblyman Reed Gusciora criticized Gov. Chris Christie for his ballot question idea on the topic of gay marriage. Christie, who didn't wasn't pleased with comparisons to two segregationist governors, responded Monday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg finds himself defending the city's use of and spending money to maintain more than 1,000 pieces of retro technology called the typewriter.
Less than a week after four of his police officers were arrested on federal charges of violating the civil rights of Latinos, East Haven Police Chief Leonard Gallo has resigned.
Minimum wage workers haven't seen a pay increase in three years. That could soon change, since State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver reportedly plans to introduce a bill today, raising the state's minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $8.50.
The NYPD announced the results of the first gun buyback of 2012 on Saturday; 108 weapons were turned in at the Bedford Central Presbyterian Church in Crown Heights.
The race for the Republican Presidential Candidacy continues in Florida; with the state's primary two days away Rick Santorum has had to cancel campaign events to be with his ill daughter in Pennsylvania.
In the Garden State, the Council on Local Madates ruled the law unconstitutional because it requires schools to spend money without providing funding.
Stanley Davis, a supervisor with the city's water utility, faces a six-year prison term under his plea deal with Mercer County prosecutors.
The ruling means the herring -- which are often used in the bait business -- can no longer be caught with nets and then sold.
Samantha Garvey and her family were given the keys to their new Bay Shore home by Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone Saturday afternoon as part of the county's affordable rental properties for homeless families.
