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A Brooklyn family woke up to a nightmare when a father’s attempt to alleviate his son’s cough went horribly wrong. The 1-year-old, Mordechai Halpern, woke up around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 14 with a bad cough. The father gave the baby a bottle of water with lemon juice and sugar, but Mordechai continued to cough. […]

NEW YORK—They had just arrived in the United States a little more than a week before, but they were ready to tell the world about what they had endured. Ahead of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, two sisters from China joined a group of about 80 meditating protesters outside U.N. headquarters. Rui and Xing […]

A man has filed a $2.5 million negligence lawsuit against a New York hospital after he said his HIV diagnosis was faxed to his workplace, allegedly revealing his condition to his co-workers. The man is known as “John Doe” in court documents and wishes to remain unnamed because he was so traumatized by the disclosure, according […]

Hundreds of activists held a rally in New York City on Saturday afternoon to protest Taiwan’s exclusion from the United Nations and other international organizations. Taiwanese Americans, Chinese dissidents, and international supporters of Taiwan joined force with activists and politicians from Taiwan to push for Taiwan’s international participation as U.N. General Assembly started its new […]

NEW YORK—A former guard at New York City’s troubled Rikers Island jail complex was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of violating the civil rights of an inmate by kicking him repeatedly in the head, causing his death. Brian Coll, 48, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan, after being convicted in December by a federal jury of causing the death of 52-year-old inmate Ronald Spear. “Mr […]

Lashawn Marten, the man who punched and killed a New York commuter because he was white, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday. Marten, aka Martin Redrick, was playing chess in Union Square Park on the afternoon of Sept. 4, 2013 when he got up after losing a series of games. Shortly afterwards, […]

In an upstate New York town of roughly 15,000, a Long Island developer is facing pushback for plans to build a Chinese education center using the controversial EB-5 investor program that trades foreign investment for United States citizenship. The Thompson Education Center (TEC), which is predominantly in the Town of Thompson with a portion in […]

While the world was still reeling from 9/11, and Ground Zero cleanup efforts were underway, a last, lone survivor was found underneath the rubble. Rescue workers and first responders didn’t just take care of human lives, they also found a lone Callery pear tree burnt and covered in rubble. The only thing left of the […]

Filming a 9/11 commercial is a sensitive affair. Anheuser-Busch had to get approvals from members of Congress, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and others. Then came the complex logistics of filming the iconic Clydesdale horses crossing the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, a water crossing snarled with traffic at all hours of day and night. But […]

Explosions boom as the first World Trade Center tower begins to collapse. The man who held a video camera nearby pointed the camera up for 5 seconds. He was so close to the building he had to flee almost immediately. Meanwhile, another man films the tower collapsing from a boat. His voice goes quiet in shock. We […]

Austin’s father was killed while on duty as a New York police officer. When tragedy struck, the dad’s fellow officers promised never to forget about Austin, his brother, Joseph, and his mom, Lisa Tuozzolo. Now that the first day of school is here, the officers kept their promise, showing up in large numbers at Austin’s […]

Biotech company Oxitec announced on Sept. 5 that it has started releasing genetically modified (GM) moths in Geneva, New York. Globally, only two types of GM insects have ever been released. GM mosquitoes have been released in Brazil, Panama, the Cayman Islands, and Malaysia. And a GM pink bollworm was briefly released about 10 years […]

NEW YORK—The smell of oil paint filled the room. It was so quiet, you could hear the rustle of paintbrushes as 40 artists painted shoulder to shoulder in the main gallery of the Salmagundi Club. The painters had 3 1/2 hours—split into 20-minute sessions punctuated by 5-minute breaks—to complete a portrait. Their collective sense of […]

A village in New York has voted to abolish its own police department.  The board in Wappingers Falls voted 5-2 on Wednesday, Aug. 30, passing a proposal for the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office to take over the village’s policing duties. Wappingers Falls is part of the Dutchess County area.  The mayor of the village, Matt Alexander, […]

A 100-year-old Bronx man shot himself in the leg on Thursday, according to police. Pedro Detres was at his home on 162nd Street near Sheridan Avenue when he took out his unregistered .32-caliber revolver and it went off, hitting him in the thigh, NYPD reported. The centenarian was taken to the hospital before being arrested […]

A New York City man had to be pulled out of the crosswalk on his way to work Tuesday morning after a patch of street gave way under his foot. Steven Suarez, unable to pull his leg out of the mini sinkhole, sat with one leg in the ground and one leg folded on top while he waited for […]

A mother of three died at a hospital on Tuesday after she was discovered unconscious with rosary beads stuffed down her throat. Police had arrested her boyfriend earlier in the day after he was seen walking outside naked, screaming about the devil and mumbling about her “being with God now,” according to 1010WINS. The woman was […]

A sick prank that left an 11-year-old Bronx girl burned on over 85 percent of her body didn’t let her injuries keep her down for long. Jamoneisha Merritt, who was doused with just-boiling water at a sleepover on Aug. 7, took to the street yesterday after her neighborhood put on a block party to give […]

A New York woman is recovering after having been attacked by a wild animal that had, according to the prognosis of rabies, lost its mind. Rita Sweenor is now sharing the story of how she fought off a rabid coyote around the area of Five Combines in Washington County. She said the ordeal nearly killed […]

A suburban New York school district will reassign two football coaches in connection to the death of a 16-year-old football player during a pre-season practice on Aug. 10. The Sachem School District superintendent said that the Sachem East High School football coach and a member of the coaching staff will be reassigned pending the outcome of […]