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New York repealed on Friday a seldom-used law over a century old that made it a crime to cheat on your spouse — a misdemeanor that once could have landed adulterers in jail for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

A decision on whether Sean “Diddy” Combs’ will be released on bail was pushed back to next week by the judge overseeing his sex-trafficking case.

Some tri-state residents woke up to a couple of inches or more of snow on Friday. While most of the immediate New York City area, some towns north and west of the city, especially at higher elevations, saw the first accumulating snow of the season. There were some school closings and delays from the snowy conditions, with an NBC New…

The New York City judge overseeing President-elect Donald Trump’s “hush money” case said there will be no sentencing next week.

The New York Giants released Daniel Jones, the team’s former starting quarterback, after he requested to be let go following his benching.

While much of the tri-state received rain overnight, some residents in New York and New Jersey are waking up to the first accumulating snow of the season. The most significant snowfall was expected in higher elevations north and west of the New York City area. So far, the snow accumulation has been very “elevation dependent,” according ...

Thursday’s short filing says “all claims against Defendant … are hereby dismissed with prejudice.”

The major U.S. averages all notched weekly gains.

A Brooklyn church deacon who was asked to help supervise a parish under financial scrutiny was himself relieved of his duties after recordings surfaced of private conversations that allegedly include him using racist language.

After more than a half-century at NBC 4 New York, legendary broadcast journalist Chuck Scarborough will conclude his record-setting run as the New York City DMA’s longest-serving local television news anchor on Thursday, December 12 at 6 PM.

Dozens of retailers, including Macy’s, Gap and TJ Maxx, increased APRs on their store credit cards before the Federal Reserve cut rates, padding their profits.

At what age can kids see “Wicked”? Here’s what parents need to know about the film’s PG rating.

A Michigan beef manufacturer is recalling more than 160,000 pounds of ground beef products shipped to restaurants nationwide that could be contaminated with E.coli, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Wolverine Packing Co. issued the recall for 167,277 pounds of fresh and frozen ground beef products on Wednesday. The fresh ground beef ...

It was impossible for prosecutors, the courts and the city jail system to predict that that Ramon Rivera would be accused of killing three people a month after being released. But critics and criminologists say there were missteps — like a lenient offer by prosecutors and lack of focus on Rivera’s schizophrenia diagnosis — that in hindsight s...