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Police are now identifying the woman who was fatally stabbed on Christmas Eve on Long Island. Josefina Ramirez Montero, 57, was stabbed multiple times in Massapequa on Tuesday, according to Nassau County police. Officers found Ramirez Montero unresponsive on Old Sunrise Highway near Clocks Blvd. around 7 p.m. Christmas Eve, police said. She was tak...

A Long Island firefighter was taken to the hospital Thursday evening after fighting a fire in Old Bethpage, Nassau County police said. Fire crews responded to the house fire on Round Swamp Road around 6:15 p.m. Thursday. Plainview firefighters were able to get the fire under control with the help of other nearby departments. One first responder was...

A fire at a kiosk at the Bryant Park Winter Village in Manhattan led to a large emergency response Friday morning. Video from the Citizen app showed heavy flames coming from the Bryant Park holiday market around 9:30 a.m., as the fire broke out before the busy tourist destination opened for business. Videos shows the holiday stores consumed by fire...

The jackpot for Friday’s drawing currently sits at an estimated $1.15 billion, with a cash option of $516.1 million.

The NYPD is looking for the masked attacker who allegedly stabbed a Brooklyn shelter worker to death Thursday night. The stabbing occurred just after 6 p.m. at the shelter on East New York Avenue in Brownsville, according to police. When officers arrived, they found a 36-year-old male victim in the lobby of the shelter with stab wounds to his neck&...

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is asking a federal judge to delay his end-of-January sentencing on bribery charges, saying his family would suffer a “tremendous emotional toll” if the New Jersey Democrat was sentenced during his wife’s trial. His lawyers told Judge Sidney H. Stein in a letter that Nadine Menendez would face a jury that might f...

Fairfield police are looking for the person who stole a delivery vehicle at gunpoint over the weekend. Officers responded to Woodrow Avenue in the Southport section of Fairfield Saturday around 8:30 p.m. after a delivery driver reported having their vehicle stolen while delivering packages. When the driver got out of the vehicle to deliver a packag...

A sinkhole on I-80 in New Jersey is causing delays and detours Thursday as crews work to plan repairs. The sinkhole opened on Interstate 80 eastbound in Wharton in Morris County. The state Department of Transportation is warning motorists to expect delays through the area and to consider alternate routes. “At approximately 7:45 a.m. today, Th...

The NYPD is looking for the driver who struck a woman with their car in Queens before leaving the scene on Christmas, police said. The 47-year-old female victim was first hit around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday by an unknown vehicle heading west on 111th Avenue, but before emergency responders arrived, she was run over again by a Ford Expedition, according ...

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, or Chanukah — the Festival of Lights — is underway. It began at sundown on Wednesday, Dec. 25 and will continue into the beginning of 2025. On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah m...

The jackpot for Friday’s drawing currently sits at an estimated $1.15 billion, with a cash option of $516.1 million.

NBC New York’s David Ushery sat down for an interview with former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, a week after graphic and salacious reports that he demanded sex from a subordinate in exchange for overtime pay and other perks. The allegations came from a member of his office who described him as a “predator.” Maddrey sai...

A former top NYPD official admitted Friday that he had a sexual relationship with a subordinate, but denied her claims that he demanded sex in exchange for extra pay.