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A 33-year-old Long Island man has pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and other crimes in connection with a 120 mph, drug-fueled crash that killed a father and three children last summer, prosecutors said.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says police shot and killed a student outside a middle school after receiving a report of someone with a weapon.

The Philadelphia native is urging Sixers ticket holders not to sell their Game 6 tickets to Knicks fans in an attempt to prevent another massive New York showing at Wells Fargo Center on Thursday.

Police investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who was found buried in a Stamford park last year have elevated charges filed against his father. The investigation started on Jan. 2, 2023, when Stamford police received a report of a possible kidnapping and a child who might have been injured. Authorities learned the child might have been buried ...

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after his arrival on Friday to city jails. On Thursday, t...

As the two-week standoff between pro-Palestinian protesters and college administrators at Columbia University in New York came to a head Tuesday, officials anxiously monitored whether the fallout would spark more protests on college campuses around the country or quell what has been a growing movement. It was the former. Here’s a ti...

The embattled president of Columbia University sent a letter to the school community Wednesday, in the aftermath of a sweeping NYPD operation that saw hundreds of protesters arrested as SWAT teams descended on campus. Minouche Shafik, who has faced mounting calls to resign amid what some have described as “anarchy on campus,” had been r...

Casi 110 personas fueron arrestadas en la Universidad de Columbia el martes por la noche cuando agentes de la Policía de Nueva York con equipo antidisturbios irrumpieron en el ocupado Hamilton Hall y en el campamento.

More than 100 protesters were arrested — yet few injuries reported — when NYPD officers in riot gear descended on Columbia University late Tuesday, using tactical strategies to clear the occupied Hamilton Hall and lawn encampment at the request of the college, as anti-war demonstrations at U.S. campuses reached an inflection point.

Ryan Garcia denied using PEDs in a video posted on Wednesday night after ESPN reported that he had tested positive for a banned substance.

 The people of Newark paid their respects to the late New Jersey Congressman, Donald Payne, while he was lying in the state at the Essex county court house . NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports. 

Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will join Anna Wintour as co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala. Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art made the announcement Thursday. This year’s Met Gala is on May 6. And the dress code? “The Garden of Time,” whatever that means in the imaginations of the star-studded crowd. The dress co...