NEW YORK (AP) — A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in New York City, health officials disclosed Thursday as they revealed that some cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria are in city-run buildings. The outbreak in Central Harlem has ...
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Attorneys for the white supremacist gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket told a judge Thursday that the federal charges against him should be dropped because there weren't enough Black people and other minority ...
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Robert A. Caro's latest literary honor is very close to home. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian has been named the first-ever Founders Historian Laureate by The New York Historical, the venerable museum and cultural center where ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general on Wednesday sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case as the Trump administration was gutting the agency. Attorney General Letitia James, a ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man has been charged with cyberstalking a family member of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly leaving threatening voicemails that expressed glee about the insurance executive's killing, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Shane Daley, 40, is accused ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds turned out to honor the life of Aland Etienne, the security guard who was killed last month at a Manhattan office tower by a gunman targeting the headquarters of the National Football League. An immigrant from Haiti who came to the U.S. in 2017 with a dream for a new ...
By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump's Justice Department is zeroing in on New York Attorney General Letitia James with a subpoena for records related to the $454 million civil judgement she won against Trump for lying about his wealth, a person ...
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump's civil rights, according to people familiar with the ...
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Escorted by police and accompanied by a Catholic priest, about 300 migrants began walking north on Wednesday from southern Mexico, even as the activist who helped organize them remained in police custody over allegations of human trafficking. On Tuesday, authorities ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press A Purdue University student from South Korea has been freed from federal detention, tearfully reuniting with her family and religious community in Manhattan following days of outcry from faith leaders in New York and abroad. Yeonsoo Go, 20, was taken into ...
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Federal and state officials in Florida must produce agreements showing which government agency or private contractor has legal authority to detain people or perform immigration officer roles at "Alligator Alcatraz," the immigration ...
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press A relatively mild, 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the New York metropolitan area Saturday night. Here's what to know. What happened? The earthquake hit in the New Jersey suburb of Hasbrouck Heights at about 10:18 p.m. Eastern time at a depth of about 6.2 ...
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The National Science Foundation can continue to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from researchers in several states until litigation aimed at restoring it plays out, a federal court ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge John ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A federal grand jury has indicted a man in connection with a 2013 fire in upstate New York that killed a 33-year-old father and his three young children, nine years after authorities had said there was "significant evidence" of his involvement in the ...
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Energy drinks that mistakenly contain vodka are being recalled in half a dozen states. High Noon is recalling two production lots of High Noon Beach Variety packs because some packs include cans containing vodka that were mislabeled as Celsius Astro Vibe Energy Drink, ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A New York businesswoman has pleaded guilty in connection with a financial scheme that ripped off more than $30 million from foreign investors and funneled some of the stolen money into U.S. political campaigns, including a 2017 fundraiser for President ...
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development, the latest step to suppress the industry in the United States. More than 3.5 million acres had been designated wind energy areas, the ...
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A man has pleaded not guilty to drowning his 9-year-old daughter while vacationing in New York's Adirondack region and hiding her body in the water of a wooded area. Luciano Frattolin entered his plea Wednesday. Frattolin had reported Melina Frattolin missing just ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man accused of plotting to set off homemade explosives he had stashed at sites across Manhattan has been indicted, federal prosecutors said. Michael Gann, 55, built at least seven improvised explosive devices last month with chemicals he bought online in May and ...
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A 9-year-old girl from Canada found dead in an upstate New York pond after her father reported her missing was drowned, according to preliminary autopsy results released Tuesday. Luciano Frattolin, 45, of Montreal, was charged with murdering and concealing the corpse ...