NEW YORK (AP) — A mother whose toddler was yanked from her arms by New York police in a widely seen online video has sued the city. Jazmine Headley is seeking unspecified damages in her federal suit, filed Wednesday in ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades spread through every floor of a Bronx apartment building within a matter of minutes, city officials said, killing 12 people and sending other residents scrambling outside into the ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators worked through the night to determine what led a truck driver to plow down people on a riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center, brandishing air guns and yelling “God is great” in Arabic ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The victims of the bike path attack near the World Trade Center included five Argentines, part of a group of friends celebrating the 30th anniversary of their high school graduation with a trip to New York ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A top Brooklyn politician pressed the state Tuesday to set up a special commission to investigate wrongful convictions and pinpoint the problems — and people — to blame. “Releasing innocent people is not the end. It ...

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State lawmakers are poised to overrule New York City’s impending fee on non-reusable shopping bags after legislators from both parties voted Tuesday to delay any fee until at least next year. The fee of at least a nickel was set ...

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NEW YORK — He’s locked up 23 hours a day. His wife can’t visit him. He can’t call anyone, except his lawyers. He even was denied water, his lawyers say. The strict jail conditions for notorious Mexican drug lord and ...

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On Dec. 22, the Court of Appeals upheld the trial court and Second Department, Appellate Division’s decisions, finding New York City liable in negligence for failing to adequately study and correct a documented speeding problem on a city street, which ...

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NEW YORK — New York City prosecutors have declined to bring charges against a court officer who fatally shot a man trying to rob him at gunpoint outside a Dunkin’ Donuts earlier this year. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says ...

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Members of a New York City synagogue are searching a landfill in Perinton for a religious item that fell into a trash can last week. WHEC-TV reports a congregant at a Brooklyn synagogue lost an embroidered bag containing his tefillin, ...

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NEW YORK  — John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City has started using new face recognition technology. The biometric readers match a person’s face to their passport. Customs agents unveiled the biometric technology on Tuesday. Customs and Border ...

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NEW YORK — The White House and New York City’s district attorney pledged a combined $79 million on Thursday to help clear the tens of thousands of rape kits that have gone untested across the country. The White House announced ...

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