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Perhaps no one could have predicted Ramon Rivera would allegedly go on a stabbing spree in broad daylight one month after getting out of jail, killing three people at random. But in the past, he had expressed homicidal thoughts and been hospitalized for serious mental illness, according to sources familiar with his case. Rivera’s mental healt...

The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned the criminal conviction of actor Jussie Smollett, accused of faking a 2019 attack in Chicago.

Former Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell died on Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her family. They said she died at a Florida hospital. She was 78 years old.  Gov. Ned Lamont is calling for U.S. and state flags in Connecticut lowered to half-staff in her honor. effective immediately until sunset on the date of interment, which has not yet....

An NYPD traffic agent is recovering after a driver, who was unhappy with a parking ticket, struck him in the face on Wednesday in Brooklyn, police said. The attack happened near Avenue U and East 8th Street in Sheepshead Bay around 9:30 a.m The Traffic Enforcement Agent was in uniform on-duty when he was approached by a man who began…

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Those looking to access Reddit Wednesday afternoon were met with an unfamiliar message, with no posts loading and leaving users confused.

Rex Heuermann’s estranged wife is moving out of their Massapequa Park house and will be moving to South Carolina, according to her attorney

A former doctor has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing multiple patients, including children, over the span of years in the New York area.

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to “reboot” the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI. Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Florida, was charged with attempt to use an explosive device to damage or des...

Sotheby’s auctioned off the infamous piece of work titled “Comedian,” created by Italian artist and cultural prankster Maurizio Cattelan.

Tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway are about to go up by three percent on Jan. 1, 2025.

Moving to stabilize an administration roiled by investigations, resignations and his own indictment, New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday appointed sanitation chief Jessica Tisch as police commissioner. A city government stalwart and ex-NYPD official, she’ll be just the second woman in the high-profile, high-pr...

A New York City building superintendent who was praised as a devoted caregiver in a New York Times profile was charged with stealing more than $350,000 from a 100-year-old resident of the building where she worked, prosecutors announced.

New York City police are searching for a man accused of stealing a gold-plated rose from a Manhattan church memorial honoring the victims of 9/11.