Gunman In Wheelchair Kills Man In The Bronx, Police Say
Just before 2 a.m. Sunday, police said they found 28-year-old Kevin Thomas outside the Mott Haven Houses on East 143rd Street with numerous gunshot wounds to the torso.
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Just before 2 a.m. Sunday, police said they found 28-year-old Kevin Thomas outside the Mott Haven Houses on East 143rd Street with numerous gunshot wounds to the torso.
According to police, the suspect stole a marked police vehicle from a parking lot on Kingsbridge Avenue at around 6:20 a.m. Sunday morning.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for a community summit on policing following the fatal police shooting of a mentally ill woman in New York City.
Police are looking for a man who they said tried to rape a woman after putting her in a chokehold in the Bronx.
The girl was on Davidson Avenue when police said a man walked up to her from behind, forcibly removed a cell phone from her hand and then fled on West 180th Street towards Grand Avenue.
A suspect is in custody after a 38-year-old man was slashed in the face in the Bronx earlier this week.
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Police have arrested and charged a man with robbing a Bronx bar at gunpoint.
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A school bus with special needs students crashed and tipped over on the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx Wednesday.
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Fire crews late Monday rescued two men who got stuck in a trench in the Bronx.
A Bronx neighborhood was on alert Monday afternoon as a bomb scare shut down a local street.
Julio Salcedo-Contrer appeared in court in Hackensack on Thursday.
An FDNY battalion chief was posthumously promoted after he was killed in a house explosion in the Bronx Tuesday.
Police said they are questioning a person of interest in connection with the explosion, which happened Tuesday morning at a home on West 234th Street.
The 17-year veteran was described as a "rising star" in the department and a dedicated family man who was married with three young children.
A man was in police custody and being questioned late Tuesday afternoon, after a house explosion that left an FDNY battalion chief dead in the Bronx.
Michael Fahy, a 17-year veteran, was a father of three children and was the son of a fire chief.
A school bus crashed into a residential building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Thursday morning.
The Feast of San Gennaro is filling New York City's Little Italy with faith, music, games and many treats starting Thursday.
Police found a woman unconscious and unresponsive after responding to a call in Sheepshead Bay.
Pete Alonso homered against the Mets, a solo shot in the first inning that sent the Orioles to a 7-1 victory Wednesday night.
Family and the Bridgeton, N.J., community held a vigil Wednesday, marking seven years since Dulce Maria Alavez's disappearance.
A school bus crashed into a residential building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Thursday morning.
The Feast of San Gennaro is filling New York City's Little Italy with faith, music, games and many treats starting Thursday.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is toning down his rhetoric about the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he once threatened to arrest.
Some New York City public school students with special needs still don't have school bus service almost one week into the school year.
Fire departments were hard at work in Paterson, New Jersey, and Fairfield County, Connecticut, due to flash flooding on Sunday morning.
Rainy weather makes a return to the New York City area this weekend.
After a week filled with periods of storminess and high humidity, a calmer and drier weather pattern is settling in for the holiday weekend.
Severe storms returned to the Tri-State Area, making it a soggy Thursday morning.
The rain returns Tuesday with the possibility of severe storms and downpours that can cause flash flooding in the New York City area.
Family and the Bridgeton, N.J., community held a vigil Wednesday, marking seven years since Dulce Maria Alavez's disappearance.
A New Jersey Republican county chair has been charged with pointing a weapon at another driver in what state police call a road rage incident.
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Thousands of gallons of diesel fuel spilled from an AI data center in Secaucus, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said.
Fire departments were hard at work in Paterson, New Jersey, and Fairfield County, Connecticut, due to flash flooding on Sunday morning.
The typical age a person in the U.S. starts a master's program is 33, but one Long Island teenager is about to shatter that timeline.
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The New York State Board of Regents has approved a plan to begin overhauling high school graduation requirements.
There are calls to widen Sunrise Highway, one of Long Island's most traveled thoroughfares, due to congestion in one 10-mile stretch in Suffolk County.
Also known as New York State Route 27, Sunrise Highway has become so congested in one 10-mile stretch in Suffolk County, officials and first responders say it needs another lane in both directions. CBS News New York's Carolyn Gusoff reports.
Seventeen new modular public bathrooms are being installed across New York City as part of a yearlong pilot program.
Lawmakers are targeting what are often called "e-motos," which are devices being sold as e-bikes and e-scooters but can go much faster than what's legal on city streets.
There are calls to widen Sunrise Highway, one of Long Island's most traveled thoroughfares, due to congestion in one 10-mile stretch in Suffolk County.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled Tuesday his 10-year street safety plan called Vision Zero Reimagined.
Earlier Tuesday, a federal judge again blocked the board from adding President Trump's name to the facade of the building.
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One person has died and a total of five people have been sickened by Legionnaires' disease in the Bronx.
As of late August, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund has received 112,000 claims, awarding more than $18 billion.
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The Feast of San Gennaro is filling New York City's Little Italy with faith, music, games and many treats starting Thursday.
The iconic Peanuts character Snoopy is getting a new look for the 100th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
Aaron Rowe, Beoga, Lukas Graham and Finneas all released statements Tuesday on Instagram saying they were withdrawing from Ed Sheeran's tour.
The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards celebrated the best in television and streaming from the past year on Monday. See the full list of winners and nominees.
Performer Macklemore is being dropped from Ed Sheeran's Loop tour after making on-stage statements that some found controversial.
Pete Alonso homered against the Mets, a solo shot in the first inning that sent the Orioles to a 7-1 victory Wednesday night.
Luke Keaschall went 3 for 5 and scored from second base on Victor Caratini's game-ending single in the 13th inning to send the Minnesota Twins past the New York Yankees 5-4.
Coby Mayo's inside-the-park homer in the 11th inning sent the Orioles to a 7-5 victory over the Mets on Tuesday night.
Max Fried earned his first victory since April 27, backed by home runs from Cody Bellinger and Spencer Jones that helped the New York Yankees keep pace in the AL East race with an 8-1 win over the Minnesota Twins.
The Yankees beat the Twins 8-3 Monday on a night they clinched their 61st postseason berth and ninth in 10 seasons.
The People's Theatre now has its first permanent home in more than 15 years, thanks to help from theater legends from the neighborhood, like Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative's 1.8-acre native plant sanctuary marks 10 years at a site where historians believe hundreds of human remains still lie
At a Bay Ridge school, students who were born years after the attacks are learning about Sept. 11 through the stories of parents, teachers and first responders who lived through it.
Former Mets players from the 2001 season were at Ladder 25 on the Upper West Side on Tuesday.
Grammy and Emmy Award-winning musician Lizzo made a surprise visit to meet Brooklyn students and debut her new children's book.
People dressed in elaborate headgear and paraded up Fifth Avenue for New York City's Easter Sunday tradition.
The Halloween tradition strolled through Manhattan's East Village on Sunday, with furry friends dressed in colorful costumes.
A suspect was taken into custody after an attack on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on June 1 in which there were 15 people and a dog who were victims. The suspect threw Molotov cocktails that burned some of the victims, who were part of a march for Israeli hostages.
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Juan Mercedes, 25, faces multiple charges after allegedly stabbing the Australian teen tourist multiple times in an unprovoked attack.
A home on Ocean Walk in Fire Island Pines went up in flames Wednesday.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the "Respect Check Act" violates collective bargaining law and will cost the city thousands.
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