New York

A man has pleaded guilty to 10 racially-targeted burglaries in four Massachusetts communities in 2021. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said Friday that 32-year-old New York resident Juan Castano had pleaded guilty to 21 indictments in connection with burglaries at homes of Asian and South Asian families in Newton, Wellesley, Andover and Quincy. A codefendant, Wendy Reyes, is due…

The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments was sold at Sotheby’s on Wednesday.

In a news conference on Tuesday, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg discussed the charges for the shooting of Brian Thompson on Dec. 4. 

A historic (or perhaps more accurately, prehistoric) discovery was made just under the surface of a New York homeowner’s lawn.

Drones are being spotted all over the U.S. But are those flashing lights in the sky really airplanes?

The accused stowaway on a flight from New York to Paris in November has been arrested again, this time caught at the U.S.-Canada border after ditching her ankle bracelet monitor, according to a senior official briefed on the matter.

Why are there drones flying all over New Jersey and New York? Investigators hope to find out.

Top state officials in New York are urging the federal government to deploy special detection systems to track down drones. NBC New York’s Brittany Miller reports. 

The New York Stewart International Airport was forced to close runways Friday night for about an hour.

One person died after a small plane crashed down onto a highway in New York’s Westchester County, shutting down the highway for an extended time, according to a police source and officials.

A former high school classmate and neighbors in Hawaii shared their recollections of the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Former marine Daniel Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 death of Jordan Neely in New York.

“I never went a day without worrying or thinking about if they had a terrible ending to their life,” Christine Heller Seaman said about her grandparents Charles and Catherine Romer, who were reported missing in April 1980.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was drenched in rain and briefly disrupted by Pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Twenty-one people were arrested.

A gold-plated rose from a Manhattan church memorial honoring the victims of 9/11 remains missing.

New York repealed on Friday a seldom-used law over a century old that made it a crime to cheat on your spouse — a misdemeanor that once could have landed adulterers in jail for three months.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener made a series of audio recordings to be sent to NBC News around the time of the planned bombing, the complaint says.

Gautam Adani and others are accused in the New York indictment of paying Indian government officials $250 million to secure solar energy supply contracts.

New York City politicians are calling on Whoopi Goldberg to apologize for suggesting on air that a local bakery had declined to make The View co-host a batch of desserts for her birthday because of her political beliefs.

Renting in Boston is expensive, and some are looking to New York’s recent model for relief. The New York City Council voted this week to ban broker fees for tenants, shifting the financial burden to landlords. Some Boston residents are calling for the city to do the same, and Mayor Michelle Wu says she’s supportive of exploring the idea....