Police on Long Island say they have arrested a cross-dressing armed robber who held up a stationery store Thursday.

Patricia Wilson was in a longstanding feud with her landlord, police said. A Brooklyn landlord has been charged with murdering her tenant – bringing a longstanding feud to a brutal end, police said. Jacqueline Wesley-Rosa, 49, was arrested at the 75th Precinct stationhouse after detectives questioned her at length about the shooting death of Patricia […]

A down-on-his-luck construction worker survived a 625-volt zap to the head after getting pushed onto an electrified third rail during a drunken brawl in Brooklyn.

George Grier said he had to use his rifle on Sunday night to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious “MS-13.”

He’s famous for his obsession with the subway, but mass-transit menace Darius McCollum says he loves buses so much he has stolen 150 of them in the last decade.

A severely malnourished 4-year-old girl was found dead – tied to a crib – in a filthy Brooklyn apartment Thursday morning, cops said.

New York Gov. David Paterson on Tuesday signed into law the first extensive domestic workers’ rights measure in the nation, which he said will correct historic injustices.

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For far too long, Brooklyn has been under the thumb of the lazy leadership of Congressman Ed Towns.

The 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand plunged to her death from a Midtown luxury high-rise early Friday morning, the Daily News has learned.

New York State has won as much as $700 million as part of a competitive federal education grant known as Race to the Top, federal officials said on Tuesday. The money comes after months of wrangling in the State Legislature and fights with the state and city teachers’ unions.