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One of the most hectic days in college basketball is here as the first round of the 2025 men’s NCAA Tournament gets underway. A total of 16 men’s games will tip off over the span of roughly 12 hours Thursday. The first game tips off at 12:15 p.m. ET. The women’s First Four, meanwhile, will conclude with two games ahead of the star...

Weather Kids and Niños Del Tiempo stopped by Public School 16 in Paterson, NJ for a bilingual weather session. NBC 4 New York Meteorologist, Raphael Miranda, and Telemundo 47 Chief Meteorologist, Andrea Romero, met with fifth and sixth graders to talk about upcoming spring and summer weather.

Detectives in Berlin Township, New Jersey are searching for a man they said tried to abduct a girl while she was walking to school.

Authorities are looking for a person who attacked a 7-year-old boy in front of his mother inside a Queens subway station last month, then threatened both of them a knife before running off. According to the NYPD, the boy and his 37-year-old mom were on a northbound F train platform in the 21st Street-Queensbridge station in Astoria around lunchtime...

A man pretending to be in mourning violently robbed a funeral home director at machete-point in Harlem, authorities say. According to investigators, the suspect showed up at Daniels Wilhelmina Funeral home on West 131st Street in the middle of the afternoon one February day. He had made an appointment to meet with the director, purportedly to discu...

It was a high-stakes playoff basketball game between Floral Park Memorial and West Hempstead High Schools. Joe Gaskin was one of three referees officiating the game. Nearly towards the end of the first quarter, the 64-year-old Gaskin suddenly felt out of breath. “One of the coaches asked me, ‘Hey ref, are you feeling OK?’ I said I’m hav...

The NYPD is investigating three thefts from luxury gyms in New York City over the past few months. The alleged thieves left with wallets, cell phones and credit cards, which were then used to make unauthorized purchases totaling $83,000, the NYPD said. The thefts all involved personal property being taken from gym lockers. The first theft occurred ...

High eggs prices have been a concern for consumers across America this year. Recently we got some good news. The average cost of a dozen large white eggs is now $4.90, compared with an all-time high of $8.64 on March 5, the United States Department of Agriculture said last week. That’s the lowest level registered since Dec. 20. The prices, th...

While New York transit officials point to publicly available statistics showing major crime on the subway system is trending down this year, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy noted “a number of high-profile safety related incidents” in a letter sent to the head of the MTA.

FBI Director Kash Patel applauded Mexican authorities Tuesday for the arrest and handover of one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” suspects, an alleged gang leader from El Salvador. Francisco Javier Román Bardales is allegedly a senior leader of the Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 gang. He was arrested Monday in the mountains of the Gulf coast state o...

Here is a state-by-state breakdown of the 68 colleges in the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

We officially usher in the start of spring Thursday morning. And it doesn’t take long for the showers to follow. We’re looking ahead to a soggy Thursday evening followed by a dip in temperatures as we move through the first days of spring. A southeast wind keeps the start of Thursday gray. Low-hanging clouds will reduce visibility during the......

Authorities are investigating after a woman was found dead near some train tracks in Paterson. Officers responding to a call of shots fired near 27th Street and 19th Avenue around 3 a.m. Wednesday found the woman with a gunshot wound. She has not been identified. It wasn’t clear where she was shot. The woman was pronounced dead at the......

Tina Fey is no stranger to news and media connected with Rockefeller Center, whether playing writer Liz Lemon on “30 Rock” or co-hosting “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live,” where she also worked as the popular late night show’s head writer. It turns out, Fey is a fan of the news in real life too, and...