NEW YORK (AP) — The 70th and final conviction in a sweeping New York City corruption probe was secured on Tuesday, concluding a decade-long bribery scheme in which public housing employees steered work to contractors in exchange for bribes. The arrests in February 2024 were the largest ...
By ASSANA SAMBU and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared on state television Wednesday saying they have seized power in the country, following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace, three days after national elections. ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his car into an SUV that crashed during a high-speed chase faces a new trial in the death of a 11-year-old passenger after a jury acquitted him of murder but failed to reach a verdict Friday on manslaughter. Jurors ...
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last year was captured on body camera videos were each sentenced Friday to prison terms. The four had pleaded guilty in September, just two weeks before ...
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, JOSH BOAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press The two had called each other "fascist" and "communist," but when President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faced reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, they were just two iconoclastic New York ...
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last year was captured on body-cam videos were each sentenced Friday to prison terms. The four had pleaded guilty in September, just two weeks before ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his car into an SUV that crashed during a high-speed chase was acquitted of murder in the death of a 11-year-old passenger. A jury on Thursday found Christopher Baldner, 52, not guilty on seven of eight counts and ...
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new play exploring the complex relationship between playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime top U.S. infectious disease expert, will make its premiere early next year in New York under the ...
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled "El sueño (La cama)" or in English, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Rep. Nydia Velázquez — a trailblazer known by the nickname "La Luchadora" or the fighter — announced Thursday that she will retire next year after more than three decades in Congress. Velázquez, 72, is the second long-serving New York Democrat to say she'll ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Rep. Nydia Velázquez — a trailblazer known by the nickname "La Luchadora" or the fighter — announced Thursday that she will retire next year after more than three decades in Congress. Velázquez, 72, is the second long-serving New York Democrat to say she'll ...
By DORANY PINEDA Associated Press If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, posing serious health risks to nearby communities, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn wigmaker and social media influencer who raced through a red light and plowed into a mother and two children, killing them, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 years to 9 years in state prison. Miriam Yarimi, 33, pleaded guilty last month in state court in Brooklyn to ...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that the long-awaited meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would happen in Washington later this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political polar opposites who for months have ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn wigmaker and social media influencer who raced through a red light and plowed into a mother and two children, killing them, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 years to 9 years in state prison. Miriam Yarimi, 33, pleaded guilty last month in state court in Brooklyn to ...
By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — A post on New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd's Instagram account on Wednesday said he has started to breathe on his own after being shot in midtown Manhattan early Sunday morning. Boyd's Instagram Stories feature a ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city's current police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, has agreed to remain in the post, a major coup for the incoming mayor as he moves to assuage ...
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold after a 20-minute bidding war at ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a Trump administration legal challenge to New York policies that block immigration officials from arresting people at state courthouses, saying the federal government can't force states to cooperate with those ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has pleaded guilty in New York to trying to recruit others to commit violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities, including one plot that would have involved dressing as Santa Claus to hand out poisoned candy to ...