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Jessica Cunnington reporting on Bridgeport public schools closing because of threats. 

Greg Cergol reporting on a Long Island VFW and food pantry reopening after a fire. 

Federal prosecutors have issued another subpoena to a high-ranking member of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration. The subpoena was sent by federal investigators to a manager in the mayor’s office who has a window into the city’s vast world of lucrative migrant contracts. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports.

A New Jersey family is in mourning after two people were killed in an overnight fire. The flames were so intense, the fire spread to a pair of neighboring buildings, leaving several families to start the weekend on the streets. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

An 80-year-old New Jersey couple is recovering but shaken after a terrifying home invasion. What started as a knock at the door ended with them brutally beaten, robbed of their belongings and sense of security. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

Newark’s Omari Gaines is changing the narrative that private school is the only road leading to college and big football dreams. The Malcolm X Shabazz high school player will be heading to Stanford in the fall after helping change the trajectory of his high school team. NBC New York’s John Chandler reports.

The new bodycam video shows what happened before the subway shooting that injured two innocent bystanders, in addition to a police officer and the man who allegedly pulled a knife on the cops after they tried to stop him for fare beating. The officers were seen using Tasers in an effort to subdue him, but those failed, and shortly after...

A jury has awarded $116 million to the family of one of five people killed in a no-door helicopter. The craft crashed and sank in a New York City river in 2018 and left passengers trapped in their safety harnesses. The verdict came this week in the lawsuit over the death of 26-year-old Trevor Cadigan. Jurors faulted three companies in...

The agency’s push to fix the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn comes as detainees, advocates and judges have continued to raise alarms about “dangerous, barbaric conditions,” rampant violence and multiple deaths. Some judges have refused to send people to the jail, the only federal lockup in the nation’s biggest city.

The NYPD on Friday released body-worn camera footage from last weekend’s shooting at a Brooklyn subway station that started as a confrontation between police and an alleged fare-beater.