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Bystanders helped rescue an elderly couple from a sinking car Monday after it careened into a Long Island canal

A painting of two young, 19th-century skaters that was looted by Nazis from a Jewish family in 1933 and recently discovered at a small museum in upstate New York has been returned after 87 years.

BREAKING UPDATE: Cuomo Orders Schools in NYC Hotspots Closed Tuesday; Mayor Plans to Move Ahead With Additional Closures Wednesday New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says all non-essential businesses, public and private schools will close Wednesday in nine zip codes in Brooklyn and Queens, if approved by the state, after reporting coronavirus cases above a 3 percent positivity rate…

President Donald Trump’s son Eric is scheduled to speak via video on Monday with New York state investigators probing his family’s business practices, according to court papers filed Friday. Eric Trump has given no indication he will seek to delay the interview in light of his father’s and stepmother’s coronavirus diagnosis, which was announced early Friday, or for any other...

Two New York City teens are making Boy Scouts history by becoming the first girls to earn the rank of Eagle Scout.

Protesters gathered in cities across the country to protest the verdict in the grand jury case against Louisville police officers, who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March.

The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James says police footage related to investigations conducted by her office will be released to the public as soon as possible without the delay or authorization previously left up to local law enforcement involved.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is being celebrated in her native New York City with plans for a statue, landmarks lit in blue and impromptu memorials at her childhood home in Brooklyn and the high school she attended. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. A legal trailblazer and champion of women’s...

The city of Rochester, New York, is dealing with more trauma after a shooting at a backyard party killed two teenagers and injured 14 others

The chief and deputy chief of the Rochester, NY Police Department retired abruptly Tuesday after days of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held him down with a hood over his head.

The mayor of Rochester says reforms are coming to the police department as community elders seek to bring calmer minds to a fifth night of demonstrations over the March death of Daniel Prude, who lost consciousness after police held a hood over his head

New York’s attorney general has moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude.

Seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude last spring in Rochester, New York, have been suspended by the city’s mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter

A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the man’s family.

Nurses on the front lines of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic are calling for the state to enact minimum staffing standards ahead of another wave of infections

Watch former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s full address during the fourth night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Footage provided is a mixed feed and is a joint effort by the pool and the DNCC.

Two New Yorkers are now charged for an attack that broke the jaw of a teenage Sesame Place worker in a coronavirus face mask dispute earlier this month at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, theme park. The “unwarranted brutal assault” left the teen hospitalized for almost a week, police said.

Coronavirus changed everything about the American landscape, including politics. It’s forced candidates across the country to call audibles on their original campaign plans as they adjust to campaigning amid coronavirus. Those candidates include Jackie Gordon and Andrew Garbarino, who are battling to represent New York’s second congressional district.

A New York attorney who branded himself the “Lottery Lawyer” has been charged with swindling millions of dollars from jackpot winners in a conspiracy that federal prosecutors say involved a member of the Genovese crime family.