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Cape Cod woman and daughter, 1, die in upstate NY house fire: ‘unimaginable loss'
A Cape Cod woman and her one-year-old daughter were killed in a fire in a rural, Upstate New York town over the weekend, according to police. Shannon Hubbard, 35, of Brewster, Massachusetts, died following the fire on Sunday night, New York State Police announced. The Hubbard family was on vacation in Clinton, New York, at the time, and Shannon’s husband…
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Man pleads guilty after bringing NH girl, 12, to his NY home for sex, feds say
A man has admitted he picked up a 12-year-old girl from her New Hampshire home and brought her to his home in New York, where he sexually assaulted her in 2022, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Blake Hall, 21, pleaded guilty to a charge of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for…
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5 dead in apparent murder-suicide at NY home of recently deceased matriarch: police
Almost one week after the passing of a 95-year-old Long Island woman, police swarmed her home to investigate the deaths of five people.
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US border agent accused of ordering women to show him their breasts
Authorities say a U.S. border patrol agent in New York has been arrested for ordering women to show him their breasts and claiming that it was part of his officials duties. Border agent Shane Millan was arrested Thursday on charges that he deprived four women of their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches. Prosecutors say the 53-year-old Millan...
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RFK Jr. tells Roseanne Barr in video he was the one behind decade-old mystery of dead bear in NY's Central Park
In a video on X with Roseanne Barr, the independent presidential candidate appears to solve the decade-old mystery of how a dead bear cub came to be in Central Park.
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US reaches plea deal with alleged 9/11 mastermind and 2 accomplices
Federal prosecutors have reached plea agreements with three Guantanamo detainees accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
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30,000 feet in air, Jewish scouts from New York, New Jersey perform CPR to save a life
While on a Southwest Airlines flight from New Mexico to New York, the scouts performed CPR on a passenger who went into cardiac arrest.
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2 teen sisters die while swimming at New York's Coney Island Beach, police say
Two teenagers died while swimming at New York’s Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn.
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Video shows upstate NY officer fatally shooting 13-year-old, police say he had replica gun
Video released late Saturday shows an officer in upstate New York fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who had been tackled to the ground after he ran from police and pointed a replica handgun at them. The teen was killed a little after 10 p.m. Friday in Utica after officers in the city about 240 miles northwest of Manhattan stopped two…
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Manhattan DA drops charges against most of the Columbia University protesters
Of the 46 people arrested in connection with the occupation of the university’s Hamilton Hall, 31 had their charges dismissed.
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Indian national extradited to U.S. to stand trial in alleged plot to kill Sikh activist in New York
An Indian national accused of helping plot to kill a U.S. citizen in New York City has been extradited to the U.S. to stand trial.
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N.Y. sushi restaurant owner out of coma after dine-and-dash attack over $425 bill
An Albany sushi restaurant owner is slowly showing signs of recovery after a brutal attack outside his restaurant last month.
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Child among 3 dead after Amtrak train from NYC hits pickup truck in upstate New York
A young boy is among three people dead after an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck in upstate New York. The Friday accident happened in North Tonawanda, a small town along the Niagara River between Niagara Falls and Buffalo. Police say the 6-year-old boy was one of three people in the pickup who died in the crash. The other victims...
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Cruise ship sails into NYC port with 44-foot dead whale across its bow
The whale, identified as a sei whale, was caught on the ship’s bow when it arrived at the Port of Brooklyn on Saturday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez said.
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Climber who died in Alaska national park ID'd as noted N.Y. forest ranger
Robbi Mecus, 52, was an outspoken outdoors enthusiast who was transgender. She founded the Queer Ice Fest to attract LGBTQ+ people to winter climbing.
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Blind New York woman using sonar technology to hear total solar eclipse
A visually impaired New York woman has spent the last several months learning a new skill: how to hear the upcoming total solar eclipse.
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Flight diverts to Boston due to cracked windshield
An American Airlines flight was diverted overnight to Boston while on its way from New York to Madrid after the windshield cracked.
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Spain-bound flight diverted to Boston Logan airport
A flight traveling from New York to Spain had to be diverted to Boston Logan International Airport overnight. It’s all due to a cracked windshield and now customers are stranded and shaken.
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Flight from New York to Spain diverts to Boston due to cracked windshield
Massachusetts State Police say a Madrid-bound American Airlines flight landed at Logan International Airport after an Alert 2 was declared.
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Survivors of sexual assault by a New York gynecologist talk about the long road to justice
Dr. Robert Hadden victimized dozens of women before he was stopped. He’s now in federal prison. Five of his former patients spoke to NBC News about getting people to listen.