Officers suspended over pepper spraying of 9-year-old
"Unfortunately, state law and union contract prevents me from taking more immediate and serious action," the mayor said in a statement.
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"Unfortunately, state law and union contract prevents me from taking more immediate and serious action," the mayor said in a statement.
She was handcuffed in the back of a squad car. Rochester, New York's mayor says she's "very concerned" about how the girl was treated.
The state's health department has pushed back against the undercount allegation.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at a COVID-19 briefing Friday that indoor dining can resume in New York City at 25% capacity on February 14, Valentine's Day. He also said wedding receptions can resume with up to 150 people starting March 15. Watch his announcement.
Cuomo had closed restaurants to indoor dining on December 14, preventing the struggling businesses from cashing in on the lucrative Christmas and New Year's seasons.
New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report saying the state may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths in nursing home patients "by approximately 50%," because it did not include those who died off-site at hospitals. CBSN New York has details.
Under the bill, people in prostitution would have prostitution and loitering charges expunged from their criminal records.
Brian Gundersen, 26, was arrested after multiple people recognized the jacket from photos of the January 6 riot and contacted the FBI, according to court documents filed Monday.
The former Democratic presidential candidate announced his bid last week to become the city's next mayor.
As an impeachment trial looms in Washington, former President Trump could also face possible criminal charges in New York. The state's attorney general is investigating the now-private citizen and his company for tax fraud while the Manhattan district attorney's office pursues a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization. CBS News senior national correspondent Ben Tracy joined "CBSN AM" from Florida, where Mr. Trump now lives, to break it all down.
Authorities say the Army National Guard members were on a routine training flight on a medical evacuation chopper when it went down outside Rochester.
The mayor warned on Tuesday that the city was about to run out of vaccine doses.
The city's vaccination rate has outpaced the supply provided by the federal government.
The New York governor has pushed for the federal government to make more doses of the vaccine available.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday the state will give its next allotment of COVID-19 vaccine doses to hospitals that have administered the greatest proportion of what they were given earlier. The governor and state officials discussed the state's efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic in a briefing that also touched on the new variants of the virus and the state's efforts to procure more of the vaccine. Watch a portion of their remarks.
The National Rifle Association filed for bankruptcy this Friday, months after a lawsuit from New York's Attorney General alleging tax fraud and questionable spending by top executives. The NRA plans to reincorporate in Texas.
Naomi Beckwith will start the position in June.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will cancel contracts with the Central Park Carousel, Wollman and Lasker skating rinks in Central Park and the Ferry Point Golf Course in the Bronx.
The move makes 7 million New Yorkers eligible for the shot.
Ponsetto has been charged with attempted robbery, grand larceny, endangering the welfare of a child and attempted assault.
Cuomo called the fast-spreading strain "nothing short of frightening."
A woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and was seen on video attacking him faces extradition to New York after her arrest. Nikki Battiste has more.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday the state will start scheduling COVID-19 vaccinations for the next group of people on Monday. That includes first responders and education and public transit workers. People 75 and older, and public safety workers, will also be eligible to start making appointments for vaccinations. Watch his remarks.
First responders, people 75 and older, and public safety workers will also be eligible to start making appointments.
Total coronavirus hospitalizations in the state Wednesday stood at 8,655 and there were 161 new deaths due to the virus.