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New Yorkers gathered for a prayer vigil in Inwood to honor the lives lost and the families impacted. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

Spring can throw just about any type of weather our way. From cold and blustery to hot and sunny, we can see it all. Even April snow!  It’s no surprise, then, that as eponymous spring “showers” move across the tri-state this weekend, parts of our area will see some snow mixing in. Before you get too excited (or panicked)...

Storm Team 4 Meteorologist, Matt Brickman, visited PS 20 Anna Silver School on the Lower East Side. The large group of kindergartners and first graders learned about different types of clouds and why thunder is so loud.

DOGE rescinded a $500K federal grant that would have gone towards a restoration project for Lucy the Elephant, according to Rich Helfant.

A week after a South Jersey woman was arrested on accusations of trying to hire a man she recently met on Tinder to kill her ex-boyfriend — who is a Philadelphia police officer — and his teenage daughter, the woman appeared in a Camden County courtroom Friday. Find out what happened.

A sightseeing chopper went down over the Hudson River after the rotor seemed to break apart in midair. Officials have now identified two of the six victims as investigators work the scene for a second day. NBC New York’s Romney Smith and Tracie Strahan report. 

Pedro Sanchez, the prime minister of Spain, said the crash was “an unimaginable tragedy.”

Romney Smith reporting on family of 5, pilot killed in helicopter crash.

Six people, including a family of five Spanish tourists, were killed when the helicopter broke apart near Jersey City.

Part of the sightseeing helicopter was removed from the Hudson River, but officials say the recovering of parts and evidence is far from over. Here’s what we know so far about the investigation and the victims killed in Thursday’s helicopter free fall. 

 A jury on Thursday found that rapper Soulja Boy was liable for sexually assaulting and physically and emotionally abusing a former assistant, awarding the woman $4 million in damages.