NEW YORK (AP) — New York's much-debated plan to charge drivers to enter the center of Manhattan is set to take effect Sunday, following years of bureaucratic and legal roadblocks. The goals of what is known as "congestion pricing" are to reduce gridlock and pollution and raise revenue for ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For 16 years, a suburban New York prosecutor's office insisted it had the right man in a notorious 1996 double killing. The office tried him five times, through a series of hung juries and reversed convictions, before he was ultimately ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Newly released video of a fatal New York prison beating shows correctional officers repeatedly pummeling a handcuffed man, striking him in the chest with a shoe, and lifting him by the neck and dropping him. Body camera footage of the ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Newly released video of a fatal New York prison beating shows correctional officers repeatedly pummeling a handcuffed man, striking him in the chest with a shoe, and lifting him by the neck and dropping him. Body camera footage of the ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state government agencies will have to conduct reviews and publish reports that detail how they're using artificial intelligence software, under a new law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul, a Democrat, signed the bill last week after it was passed by state ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law requires companies responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions to pay into a state fund for ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A taxicab hit six pedestrians in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, police said, with three people — including a 9-year-old boy — transported to hospitals for their injuries. A New York Police Department spokesperson said the taxi driver may have suffered a medical episode, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials are using forensics and video surveillance to identify the woman who burned to death on a subway car in Brooklyn, while the man accused of lighting her on fire was indicted by a grand jury on state charges, prosecutors announced Friday. Sebastian ...
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The immigration officers sat in their vehicles before dawn near a two-story building. A New York subway line rumbled overhead, then an officer's voice crackled over the radio. After watching for about two hours, he said, "I think that's ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The highest-ranking uniformed officer in the New York Police Department has resigned amid allegations he demanded sex from a subordinate in exchange for opportunities to earn extra pay. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Chief of ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor has ordered more than a dozen prison staffers to be fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month. Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement Saturday that she has directed the state's corrections department ...
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union continued a strike Friday at seven of the company's delivery hubs just days before Christmas. At midnight on Saturday, workers at a prominent unionized warehouse in New York will also join, the ...
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Derek Sprague has been selected as the next CEO at the PGA of America, the first time a club professional has been chosen to lead the organization in nearly 20 years. Sprague, who spent 25 years at his hometown Malone Golf Club in New York, also becomes the ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The highest-ranking uniformed officer in the New York Police Department has resigned amid allegations he demanded sex from a subordinate in exchange for opportunities to earn extra pay. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Chief ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor has ordered more than a dozen prison staffers to be fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month. Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement Saturday that she has directed the state's corrections ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Prominent real estate broker Oren Alexander and his twin brother Alon will remain in custody following their initial court appearance in Miami on Friday. The brothers had sought bond on charges of sex trafficking and gang rape. But federal ...
By PHILIP MARCELO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of gunning down United Healthcare's CEO outside a Manhattan hotel is now jailed in New York, awaiting arraignment Monday on a state murder indictment after he was returned to the city in dramatic ...
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was charged in New York with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Mangione, 26, is being held without bail in Pennsylvania, where he was ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail. Luigi Mangione ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said Tuesday that he won't dismiss a bribery charge against New York Mayor Eric Adams because prosecutors described the allegations adequately in an indictment. Judge Dale E. Ho wrote in an opinion that an indictment unsealed against the Democrat in September ...