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Hold on to your turkeys. It’s time for tinsels and cutting down the Rockefeller Christmas tree.

An ordinance that has passed in one New Jersey town on 2024 Election Day could have people in Haddon Heights raising a glass.

A New York man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for a scheme that involved killing and dismembering a woman after fraudulently taking out a life insurance policy in her name to collect the benefits, federal prosecutors said.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.

It was a dramatic morning for Spirit Airlines flyers and employees. A raccoon surprised everyone Monday morning by dropping from a ceiling tile.

It’s November, right? Six days into the month and it’s still warm enough to feel like summer, or at least early fall. The tri-state weather has been on an incredible dry streak and brushing up against record temps. That continued into Wednesday. By lunchtime, new record high temperatures had been recorded at Central Park, LaGuardia Airp...

Authorities have launched an internal investigation in the case of a New York State trooper who said he was shot by a suspect on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway at the end of October, authorities said Monday. Sources familiar with the investigation say they are looking into whether trooper Thomas Mascia shot himself in the leg, as oppose...

Democratic candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won the popular vote in New York City on Tuesday, but by a smaller margin over their Republican counterparts, Donald Trump and JD Vance, then in recent elections. Kamala Harris won 67.70% of the vote in New York City while Donald Trump won 30.45% of the vote. Here are the numbers of votes…...

As Donald Trump is announced as the 47th president-elect of the United States and the Senate is projected to have a Republican majority, all eyes turn to the House of Representatives, where some races have not been called as of 5 p.m. Two of the House races that have eyes on them are the 4th and 19th districts of New…

Rep. Mike Lawler is the projected winner of New York’s 17th congressional district, NBC News projects, an area where the balance of political power has switched back and forth in recent elections. Lawler had been in a tough campaign against Mondaire Jones, a former Democratic congressman who was one of the first two openly gay Black men to se...

Authorities are investigating a shooting on the Upper West Side where the suspect fled into the transit system, disrupting subway service in the middle of the day.

White smoke could be seen rising into the dry air as a wildfire burned in Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey Thursday. Nearby homes were evacuated.

Some in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx said that Donald Trump’s visit to a local barbershop weeks before Election Day had an impact on voters, especially Latino men.