Michael George

Videos of NYPD officers getting doused in buckets of water that surfaced on Monday have sparked a debate on whether the behavior was simply a prank, or it was anti-police sentiment.

Party City says it plans to close about 45 of its locations this year, roughly 5 percent of its national footprint, amid a worldwide helium shortage that it blames in part for a $30.2 million first-quarter loss.

A New Jersey man was taken into custody late Wednesday after he tried to walk into St. Patrick’s Cathedral with two gasoline cans, two bottles of lighter fluid and two lighters, police said.

A man in a Cookie Monster shirt who swiped a beloved kitten from a Bronx bodega has returned the feline and turned himself in to police.

One person was shot at The Mills at Jersey Gardens in Elizabeth around 8 p.m., law enforcement sources told News 4.

A son of a Long Island man who vanished in 1961, leaving his wife and children alone to grapple with the mystery of his disappearance for decades, says he feels relieved by the discovery of bones in the same home this Halloween.

The company that owned the dump truck involved in Thursday’s fatal school bus crash in New Jersey had been involved in accidents previously. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

One of two injured mothers in Monday’s deadly crash in Brooklyn that claimed the lives of two young children is a Tony-winning actress, a police source familiar with the investigation tells NBC 4 New York.

Police and SWAT teams swarmed a New Jersey high school Monday as they investigated an alleged shooting threat made by a student who had a long gun inside his home, sources said.

The Dow Jones industrial average plunged as much as 1,500 points Monday in one of the most historic routs in stock market history. Michael George reports.

A ferry carrying more than two dozen people hit a sandbar and got stuck for hours Wednesday, spurring an evacuation on a frigid night in the waters off New York City.

More than 5,000 cancer diagnoses have been linked to the toxic debris left behind after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack — and at least a dozen former students at lower Manhattan high schools say they are among those affected.

A teacher who sparked protests at a New Jersey high school when she told a Spanish-speaking student that he should instead “speak American” has returned to the classroom after making a school-wide apology.

Nearly 100 students walked out of a New Jersey high school Monday morning to protest a teacher seen telling Spanish-speaking students to “speak American” during class, despite the principal’s warning that they would be disciplined.

The NYPD released footage Thursday of the first deadly shooting captured on official department body cameras.

A doctor angry that his career was derailed at a New York City hospital toted an assault rifle past security in search of a colleague he was going to hold responsible. When that person wasn’t there, he opened fire anyway, killing a doctor who was only there covering a shift as a favor, authorities said Saturday....
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A pregnant woman was in critical condition Thursday night and her friend was recovering from serious injuries after a man with 12 prior arrests stabbed them following an argument on a subway train in the Bronx, police say.

A tourist from England was struck by a hammock that fell from a building in lower Manhattan.

A man has been arrested after the body of a missing 39-year-old pregnant woman was pulled from the basement crawl space of the Bronx home where she was last seen, police sources told NBC 4 New York.

Fears of terrorism are hanging over America’s holiday season, so President Barack Obama is planning a series of events this week aimed at trying to allay concerns about his strategy for stopping the Islamic State group abroad and its sympathizers at home. Obama’s visits to the Pentagon and the National Counterterrorism Center are part of a push to further explain...