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A taxi plowed into multiple people after it hopped a curb at Herald Square in Manhattan, sending three pedestrians to the hospital, according to police and fire officials.

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

In what police described as a “completely unrelated” incident, a man was later arrested after showing up at the airport with a gun late Wednesday night after receiving a false text that there was an active shooter.

A body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines flight that departed Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Christmas Eve.

The holiday originated in the United Kingdom and is now also celebrated in some other Commonwealth countries including Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

This year’s winter COVID-19 wave is off to a late start, and experts expect cases to keep rising. Here’s what to know.

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...

As people return home for the holidays, people are also returning to the malls. News 4 New York’s Lynda Baquero reports. 

People in the vicinity of the break had little water pressure today, if they had running water at all. News 4 New York’s Adam Harding reports.