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Police have continued to investigate the death of Etan Patz. Pedro Hernandez confessed to killing Patz thirty-three years ago, according to investigators. They have now started to focus their investigation on what he told other people in the years following Etan's death.
In Staten Island a burglar made off with an item that's not actually precious, although it most certainly is to the family it was stolen from. That object is an urn, and it contains a women's ashes.
Two accidents took place within five hours of each other -- both involving alleged impaired drivers -- at Richmond Avenue and Signs Road on Staten Island on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
The Mets have optioned left-handed pitcher Robert Carson to Double-A Binghamton and promoted right-hander Jack Egbert from Triple-A Buffalo, the club confirmed on Friday.
Graduation is this weekend at the United States Military Academy, and the West Point cadets are excited.
Terry O'Leary, the new head of the New York State Health Department's Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, has his work cut out for him, retooling an agency to deal with the overprescribing of prescription painkillers.
In all of New York City, Staten Island has the biggest problem with addiction and death by Oxycontin, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported.
A man and a woman dressed in a nurse's blouse knocked on the door and attempted to force their way in, police say.
He lost his dream job with the Boston Celtics and nearly lost his life to Oxycontin and heroin, but now he's a man on a mission, traveling the country telling his powerful story to vulnerable kids, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported.
At 21-years-old, Chris Herren was a huge talent in professional basketball, but his drug addiction proved to be even bigger.
Loved ones of the Staten Island grandmother who was killed last month are charging that the suspected driver, Brian Mcgurk of Staten Island, had been drinking all day, first at the Mets' home opener at Citi Field and then at his local bar.
A Staten Island woman unleashed a flood of emotion when she and her son saw what vandals had done to her parents' grave at St. Mary's Cemetery on Staten Island.
Around 7 a.m., an armed man wearing a black mask confronted a homeowner outside his Dawn Court home, police said.
Police said that one man was fatally shot and three others were wounded in a shootout inside a New York City housing project on Saturday morning.
Carla Sebedra, who attends a day care center, was picked up at 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, but was not dropped off at the usual time of 3:30 p.m.
Police found little Genesis Monge unconscious at a home on Steuben Street around 10:30 p.m. Monday night, officials said.
A 50-year-old New Jersey man was killed and four other people were injured when their boat capsized in waters off the northern New Jersey coast.
The NYPD is offering a $12,000 reward in exchange for information leading to a Staten Island boy who vanished from a Brooklyn foster home two years ago.
The Red Cross volunteers who help out victims of fires have had their hands full in the Tri-State Area lately.
Many Staten Island residents are worried they have been breathing in toxic smoke from the blaze and now councilmen James Oddo and Vincent Ignizio have asked city agencies to release data from the air monitoring stations downwind of the landfill.
Brian McGurk is charged with hitting and killing 57-year-old Clara Almazo while she was walking home from Mount Carmel Church with her 8-year-old grandson.
Authorities say a small brush fire that broke out in Barnegat late Tuesday morning has been fully contained, while crews hope to have a large wildfire in Burlington County fully contained by Tuesday night.
Three firefighters suffered minor injuries while battling an early morning fire at two private homes on Staten Island.
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Clara Almazo's life came to a horrible end on Holy Thursday just around the corner from Mount Carmel Church, where she had been observing the holiday with her 8-year-old grandson, Brian.
