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A New York Congressional candidate was found dead in an apparent suicide weeks after he withdrew his candidature.

A Queens mother was pulled out of a death trap after her blind son found her screaming for help when she got stranded in the basement of her home as Hurricane Ida ripped through the city on Wednesday.

A victim recounts how Khandaker persuaded her to lower her shirt beyond comfort and pulled her shirt down while placing the stethoscope and exposing her left breast.

At least 18 people have been reported dead in New York and New Jersey following flash floods caused by Hurricane Ida.

Remi Miguel Gomez Hernandez, 9, was found dead after a fire broke out on their Queens apartment when the battery of an electric scooter exploded.

A 29-year-old man has been arrested for his role in the transportation of a dead woman stuffed inside a plastic container. He was reportedly involved in moving the body from New York to New Jersey.

Rikers Island continues to go through a "summer of hell" as chaos forms within the prison population due to the lack of officers guarding them.

Authorities confirmed that a New York woman was allegedly raped inside a stranger's vehicle in Staten Island after hailing a car following reports she assumed it was her rideshare over the weekend.

A Queens yellow cab driver made a chilling discovery after his female passenger, who he thought was merely drunk, turned out to be dead after he was directed to drive the woman back to her residence and then the hospital early Tuesday morning.

Matthew Holland, a man convicted of child pornography and exploitation, has been sentenced in New York on Tuesday to 50 years in prison for his actions.

Stephanie Hillburn, wanted for hiding the corpse of her dead roommate Patricia Barter, has been arrested in New York on Wednesday in an unrelated traffic stop.

A nine-year-old boy from New York named Walker Clary has volunteered to be in Moderna's vaccination trials aimed at children on Saturday.

Thousands of lawsuits have been filed in New York in connection with childhood sex abuse, and several of the allegations are against people from religious institutions.

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has pushed back against anti-vaxxers who are reinterpreting 2007's "I Am Legend" plot to spread their propaganda.

A Boston federal court has sentenced a Texas man to 41 months in prison on Friday for leading the illegal importation of raw steroids from China, which were sold online to customers across the United States.

Toddler left under the care of older brothers, both under the age of 11, was fatally mauled by the family’s rottweiler.

Police have arrested a man from the Bronx after a divorce lawyer was found stabbed to death in his office last week.

Leonard Luton, a Jamaican national from New York, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for running a lottery scam and stealing over $970,000 from an elderly woman in Colorado.

The family of Claribel Oppenheimer is suing Evergreen Cemetery due to events on June 24 that resulted in the manhandling and disrespect of the deceased's body.

Police reports said the victim’s relative arrived at the home and saw the suspect flee before calling 911 upon finding his uncle tied up in the garage.

A 70-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by an armed masked man recently as the former was headed into her apartment. She sustained injuries and police are now tracking down the attacker.

Adam Ismail, a Texan tourist, accidentally slammed his drone into the side of the 7 World Trade Center on Monday, causing the FBI and NYPD to respond to this incident.

Shante Pleasant, a 33-year-old Bronx native, has been arrested for hiding over 25 ounces of cocaine in a diaper bag at Coxsackie, New York.

Police have retrieved the body of a 60-year-old woman who reportedly jumped from the roof of her 46-storey luxury Midtown building while holding her rescued pet dog on Friday afternoon, leaving both of them dead.

Three unidentified home invaders remain at large after holding a couple hostage and torturing the husband with a scalding hot spoon before stealing his safe during a Bronx home invasion robbery in New York on Sunday.

A woman in New York City remains unconscious and in critical condition, after she fell down the subway stairs during an attempted mugging.

Police arrested a New York woman who threatened to stab officers with a broken pipe used to smoke meth on Monday.

An ex DoorDash delivery man has been arrested on Thursday and is now being held without bail on suspicion of tampering with a New York City Police Department (NYPD) cop's Chipotle order, allegedly violating the terms of his parole in the shooting of a peace officer in 2011.

A New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer managed to save a man's life by using an empty potato chip bag and a roll of tape as makeshift tourniquets to patch up a gaping laceration following a stabbing incident in Harlem on July 7, earning praise from his colleagues.

A shift away from prosecuting prostitution has led to open prostitution becoming a common, uninterrupted occurrence in New York City.