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Authorities have charged Pedro Hernandez, of Maple Shade, N.J., with one count of second-degree murder in the death of Etan Patz, 6, back on May 25, 1979. More>>
The High Line has become a popular tourist destination but at least one local isn't so happy about it. Someone put up fliers around Chelsea complaining to the thousands of tourists. More>>
A lot of things are going on this holiday weekend in New York City. More>>
The NYPD has released security camera footage of an attempted rape in Brooklyn in the hopes of getting information on the attacker. Police are concerned the man in the video may be responsible for other More>>
A new family attraction featuring 31 animatronic dinosaurs opens this holiday weekend on a 20-acre wooded and grassy site in northern New Jersey, not far from the Turnpike. More>>
A judge in New Jersey ruled Friday the case against a woman who sent a text message to her boyfriend to be "without merit" and cannot be held liable for a car crash he caused. More>>
A New Jersey pastor who ministered to the man accused of strangling a New York City boy who disappeared in 1979 is recalling him as a quiet, "maybe timid" man who "never got involved in anything." The More>>
Consuming beer has a long and storied history in New York City, of course, but so has brewing and bottling it. More>>
A Bronx principal was collecting overtime pay while exercising with a personal trainer in the school gym after hours. But instead of getting fired, she got a plum gig heading a new Manhattan public school. The More>>
© Pedro Hernandez (photo courtesy Inside Edition)The man who police say confessed to the murder of Etan Patz in 1979 has reportedly been placed on suicide watch at Bellevue Hospital. Hernandez, 51, will be arraigned at the hospital. More>>
A student chosen to address his graduating class during commencement exercises at Union County College took the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend. More>>
An unruly passenger onboard an American Airlines flight from Jamaica had to be restrained by fellow passengers Friday morning after rushing toward the cockpit once the plane touched down in Miami. More>>
The family of a man who ran from hospital officials at Stony Brook Hospital on Long Island is desperate to find him. More>>
A weak disturbance is still lingering to our south keeping those clouds and showers in the forecast. Areas of fog will begin to dissipate towards mid morning and temperatures will be on the rise. More>>
Knicks guard JR Smith was reportedly arrested in Miami Beach on Thursday night on a warrant for not having a valid driver's license. More>>
An escaped monkey delayed a Beijing-bound flight for four hours at New York's JFK Airport on Thursday. More>>
Charlie Sheen was rumored to be the winning bidder who paid $230,000 to purchase Lawrence Taylor's Super Bowl XXV ring at auction earlier this week. Taylor and his agent Mark Leipseiter were apparently More>>
The Long Island Rail Road will start work on a second track between Farmingdale and Ronkonkoma in July. Officials say the project should be completed in six years. The plans were discussed Thursday More>>
Students attending the prom next month at Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School will reportedly be given condoms by the school. The school's principal told the NY Daily News that the decision was More>>
With the Second Avenue subway construction and now the new First Avenue traffic pattern, people on the Upper East Side say that getting around town is getting very complicated, and some are blaming the More>>
Poison control experts are urging adults to keep single-dose laundry detergents out of reach of children after seeing an up tick in young people ingesting the contents. More>>
Tragedy was averted on a New Jersey Little League baseball field when the quick thinking of coaches and nurses saved the life of a 12-year-old boy whose heart stopped after a ball struck him in his chest. More>>
The Steinbrenner family, which owns the New York Yankees, is calling reports that the team could be for sale as "pure fiction." More>>
A report by the New Jersey attorney general has cleared the New York Police Department of wrongdoing for its secret surveillance of New Jersey Muslims. More>>
Sports betting could be up and running this fall in New Jersey under a plan proposed by Gov. Chris Christie. More>>
Bill Clinton was unwittingly photographed with a porn star on each arm at the high-flying gala he co-hosted in Monaco. More>>
Airbus is offering US airlines buying its A320 passenger jet extra-wide seats for obese passengers, Airbus' aircraft interiors director said Thursday. More>>
Federal forecasters predict there will be about nine to 15 storms during this year's Atlantic hurricane season. More>>
FBI agents arrested a northern New Jersey mayor on charges of hacking into a website tied to a recall group against him. More>>
A Muslim woman accused a New Jersey shopping mall security guard of trying to force her to remove her head-covering garment. More>>
The mother of a toddler who briefly got stuck inside an active washing machine at a southern New Jersey laundromat says she wants to press charges. More>>
A 21-year-old woman was found unconscious by an EMS crew Thursday morning after being struck by a truck in Union Square, said police. More>>
A Manhattan public elementary school will be the first in the city to require that students study Arabic, officials said. More>>
Jessica Barba, the Longwood High School freshman suspended for five days after posting a video about anti-bullying, says she has been allowed to return to school. More>>
Have you ever wondered why men should shell out more for a waxing than women? It's something that concerns the New York City government. It considers it discrimination and it's cracking down on price variations based on sex. More>>
A video posted on YouTube shows a terrifying incident in Camden, New Jersey, when a man puts a toddler into a washing machine. More>>
Phillip Phillips has won "American Idol" Season 11, continuing the male dominance of the singing contest. More>>
Adam Yauch Park has a nice ring to it? At least it does to a bunch of Brooklynites. More>>
New York radio pioneer Harold Jackson, the first African-American voice on network radio, has died. He was 96. Jackson began his career in Washington, D.C. as the first African-American play-by-play More>>
It's a workout where you can set your sights high: the aerial workout known as Heliummm teaches Cirque-du-Soleil like acrobatics while toning your body from the ground up. More>>
Police in Wayne, N.J., said they had always intended on charging Patricia Dowling, the owner of Red Carpet Pageant and Prom, with filing a false police report. More>>
A school bus driver that had a suspended license has been fired. Parents don't understand how a person with a suspended license could be driving a school bus. More>>
Thieves are targeting shoppers at Trader Joe's in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, according to a DNAinfo.com report. More>>
Hello sailor! War ships and tall ships from around the world make their way into NY Harbor Wednesday for the start of Fleet Week. This year's events mark the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. More>>
The Suffolk County SPCA is offering a $2,000 reward to help track down and convict the person who fatally wounded a cat with an arrow. A man in Medford said the adult cat with an arrow stuck in it showed More>>
A French citizen accused of causing a US Airways flight to be diverted to Maine by claiming she had a surgically implanted device will soon be headed back home. More>>
The NYPD is looking for two people who they say robbed a blind elderly woman in the New York City subway system. More>>
A video shows thieves victimizing a man lying passed out at the edge of a Westchester County lawn. More>>
"Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi announced Wednesday that she is expecting a baby boy. Polizzi, 24, told In Touch Weekly, she had hoped she was pregnant with a girl but said, "It's still my More>>
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan apologized Wednesday to lawmakers for misconduct by agents involved in an alleged prostitution scandal last month in Colombia. More>>
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's helicopter is taking flak from angry East Siders. More>>
Federal prosecutors say they busted a car theft operation in New Jersey that was shipping stolen vehicles mostly to buyers in western Africa. Authorities say the case disrupted a smuggling operation at More>>
Chief Petty Officer Angela Zamora, selected as 2011 Sea Sailor of the Year East Coast, joined Good Day from Pier 92. More>>
A freshman at Longwood High School on Long Island has been suspended after creating an anti-bullying video and posting it on Facebook and YouTube. Jessica Barba, 15, created the video for a class project. More>>
A Long Island boy was robbed of a pair of sneakers that he advertised for sale on Facebook. More>>
Dump me once, shame on you. Dump me twice -- I'll see you in court. A groom wannabe is suing his former fiancee, who broke off their engagement twice in two years. More>>
Police say a woman is in critical condition after she was repeatedly struck in the head with a meat cleaver. More>>
A teacher on Long Island has been treated for the contagious bacterial skin infection known as MRSA. More>>
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said that a US Airways jet traveling from Paris to North Carolina diverted to Maine because a French passenger passed a note mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device. King More>>
NYC education officials are investigating cheating allegations in two top-ranking elementary schools in Brooklyn: P.S. 31 on Meserole Ave. and PS 257 on Cook Street. More>>
A Fox 5 report on Red Carpet Pageant and Prom in Wayne, N.J., and its owner Patricia Dowling allegedly scamming girls out of their prom dresses has set off a firestorm that has Wayne police extremely busy. A More>>
Actor Michael McKean, who portrayed the lead singer in the movie "Spinal Tap," was injured when he was struck by a car in New York City. Officials said it happened while McKean was on West 86th Street More>>
In 2010, trees, bushes and flowers were uprooted in Damrosch Park to make room for private events such as Fashion Week and the Big Apple Circus at Lincoln Center. But critics say the new plantings don't More>>
The children of St. Lucy's Elementary School in the Bronx were very excited knowing the New York Yankees would be arriving at any moment. And as soon as they saw them walk in, the kids wanted to touch More>>
Jenny Goss, 19, said she has the recipe for success. The Queens, N.Y., native recently started Jenny's Remedies, her own all-natural juice company, out of her parents' kitchen. "I got rejected from the More>>
NATO is preparing to acquire 5 unmanned air vehicles, or UAVs. With the support of resources on the ground the drone are hoped to allow the Alliance to develop its own ground defense capability. More>>
The FBI said it has arrested 10 more people as part of its months-long investigation into allegations that hundreds of Long Island Rail Road employees faked disabilities so they could enjoy more lucrative pensions. More>>
A female "avatar" -- in the form of a life-size hologram -- will soon begin greeting and guiding people at special kiosks at the New York area's three airports. More>>
Police are searching for a teen accused of exposing himself and simulating a sex act in front of a woman riding on the subway early Monday morning. More>>
New York authorities are firing the big-dollar contractor that employed a Newark Airport security supervisor who worked illegally under a phony identity for two decades. More>>
New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission will consider a fare hike. Taxi cabs rates have not gone up in six years. During that time the cost of gasoline has gone up around 40 percent. More>>
Crime on the New York subway is at its highest level for seven years, according to new statistics from the NYPD. More>>
The NYPD is investigating dart attacks that wounded three people on the street in Brooklyn on Sunday. More>>
SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Tuesday as it headed to the International Space Station (ISS). More>>
At least eight people were shot shortly after the Oklahoma City Thunder ousted the Lakers from the NBA playoffs Monday night.
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A boy from Averne, Queens has been missing since Monday morning, according to police. Kyron Hilton, 9, was last seen at P.S. 183 on Beach 79th St. at about 7:40 a.m. He is described as 4'8" tall, 91 lbs., with brown eyes and black hair. More>>
Blasting President Barack Obama as a "Big Government liberal," Mitt Romney on Monday scooped up more than $10 million in campaign donations in a metro-New York fundraising blitz. More>>
A New Jersey man was seriously injured in a freak grilling accident. He has recovered now, but wanted to share his story of being seriously hurt from ingesting a metal bristle from a grill brush. More>>
Dozens of Roman Catholic dioceses, schools and other institutions are suing the Obama administration over a mandate that most employers provide birth control coverage. More>>
Friends and family have gathered at a New York City hotel to commemorate the life of Mary Richardson Kennedy. More>>
A fashion industry worker claims she was fired for being "too hot" to work in the office and the firing came after she was told to tape down her breasts and forced to wear a bathrobe to cover her body. More>>
Two inmates escaped during a cleanup detail at a cemetery in New Jersey on Monday, Department of Correction said. Terrence T. Feeney, 43, and Joseph N. Brandt, 27, were part of a work crew from Midstate More>>
A former Rutgers University student convicted of bias crimes for spying on his gay roommate was sentenced to 30 days in jail Monday. More>>
A World Trade Center construction worker was injured Monday after falling off scaffolding, authorities said. The unidentified man was working on the new Vehicle Security Center at around 10:55am when More>>
The closed lanes and torn-up sidewalks that have turned Houston Street into an obstacle course for the past seven years aren't going anywhere soon, DNAinfo New York reported. The $60 million Houston Street More>>
Mayor Cory Booker is backing off comments he made earlier Sunday, when he criticized President Barack Obama's re-election campaign for its attacks on Bain Capital, the private equity firm once run by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. More>>
Authorities have accused a New Jersey couple of disposing of their stillborn baby in the garbage. More>>
The "tanorexic" New Jersey mom accused of child endangerment has insisted she's no different from any other mom who enjoys the simple life pleasures like wearing nail polish, smoking or eating food.
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Four climbers died in separate return trips from the summit of Mount Everest, tour agents and officials said Monday, as reports indicated a fifth body had been discovered and a guide was missing.
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A Fox 5 viewer sent in some video of something you don't see everyday... a "dancing" manhole cover. More>>
The Kennedy family feud continues. Relatives of Mary Richardson Kennedy snubbed her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), by not inviting him to a private memorial they organized in New York on Monday, a source said.
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A judge is set to announce whether a former Rutgers student will go to prison for using a webcam to see his roommate kissing another man. More>>
Barbra Streisand has added a second show in Brooklyn. The Oscar- and Grammy-winning diva was born and raised in Brooklyn but has never performed publicly there -- until now. More>>
Four men were arrested on assault charges after a man was pulled from his car and beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot, KTTV reported Monday. The incident, which occurred after Sunday night's Dodgers-Cardinals More>>
A New Jersey man is accused of trying to shoplift several TVs and was trying to use a taxi as a getaway vehicle. More>>
Family and friends of Mary Richardson Kennedy are expected to gather at the Standard Hotel on W. 13th St. in Manhattan Monday night to remember her in a separate ceremony. More>>
A father threw his two young children to their deaths off a balcony in northern Italy on Monday, before then jumping off himself. More>>
Family and friends gathered for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy Saturday in Bedford, New York. Kennedy was found dead of an apparent suicide Wednesday at the family's estate. More>>
A woman and her 6-year-old child had a horrifying moment Sunday afternoon when a swarm of bees covered a portion of her car, trapping them inside. The incident happened in the parking lot at Pier 92 More>>
A uniformed NYPD sergeant was caught on video unleashing a vulgar tirade against a group of Brooklyn men, threatening them with his gun even while condoning their criminal behavior. More>>
More than 40,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews met at Citi Field in Flushing Sunday evening to discuss the dangers of the internet. More>>
COLOGNE, Germany -- A drunk man was arrested after using the center of the historic German city of Cologne as a golf driving range.The 44-year-old rogue golfer began hitting balls down streets in the city Saturday, the DAPD... More>>
A designer was arrested on suspicion of planting false bombs in illuminated 'I Heart NY' shopping bags across New York City and is being held for a month-long mental evaluation. More>>
Bridgeport police have arrested a wheelchair-bound woman after she allegedly slashed the throat of another woman during an argument outside a local YMCA. More>>
"Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi faces further headaches in her legal battle with licensing company SRG Ventures over an email sent by her dad describing her as "the hottest thing on the market. More>>
A New Jersey man is recovering after unknowingly eating a bristle from a grill brush. More>>
Nearly 45,000 people packed Central Park on Sunday in the fight against AIDS. The 27th annual "AIDS Walk New York" was held to benefit dozens of local organizations. Many of those who attended say More>>
CHICAGO (AP) — The NATO alliance that has fought for a decade in Afghanistan is helping that nation shift toward stability and peace, but there will be "hard days ahead," President Barack Obama said Sunday More>>
Police say a man was found dead from a gunshot wound to his head inside his home in Queens Sunday morning. 21-year-old Dennis Walter was found by his fiancée around 11:30 a.m. at his home on 171st Place More>>
The blind Chinese activist who found refuge in the U.S. met with supporters on Sunday. Guangcheng arrived at his temporary home at New York University Saturday. He spent seven years on house arrest More>>
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — In recent years, Adam Cruz bought a ticket to the Bamboozle Festival, a multi-day music event held in the parking lot of Giants Stadium in northern New Jersey, cheering, sweating More>>
New York City's first million-dollar parking space is on the market.The private garage at 66 E. 11th St. costs six times more than the national average price of a single-family home. More>>
Two NATO service members were killed in an attack in Afghanistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint near a marketplace. The blast injured six children, two of them critically. The More>>
A one million dollar high-tech community security plan was unveiled in Brooklyn Sunday. Brooklyn officials unveiled the security plan because they want to make sure what happened to Leiby Kletzky never More>>
Abdel Baset al Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer who was convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died in Libya on Sunday. Several politicians have reacted to the death of Megrahi, 60, More>>
TRIPOLI, Libya -- The former Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Baset al Megrahi, who was convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died in Libya on Sunday, FOX News Channel confirmed. "He died an hour More>>
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy (AP) — A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy Sunday, killing four people, knocking down a clock tower and other centuries-old buildings More>>
NEW YORK -- Bids for New York Giants great Lawrence Taylor's Super Bowl ring reached $192,001 on Saturday night as the auction entered into extended bidding. There were 30 bids for the ring on SCP Auctions More>>
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, the tech pioneer announced. Zuckerberg took to the social networking site to announce More>>
A MTA supervisor is accused of licking the face of a female bus driver. The driver, 42-year-old Nancy Jenkins, and her male supervisor worked out of the Kingsbridge depot in Upper Manhattan. Jenkins More>>
More than a hundred cats and dogs were sharing territory in Washington Square Park hoping for a new home in the 3rd annual "Adoptapalooza." Adoptapalooza is hosted by the Mayor's Alliance for New York More>>
A blind Chinese activist is headed home to New Jersey after a month-long standoff between the U.S. and China came to an end. Chen Guangcheng along with his wife and two children were put on a plane to More>>
Photo credit to William AlatristeNew York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn tied the knot with her longtime partner Kim Catullo on Saturday in a lavish, private affair in the city's highest-profile gay wedding since same-sex unions were legalized in the US last year.
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CAMP DAVID, Md. -- Leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations Saturday wrapped up two days of diplomatic marathon talks that focused on Iran, Syria and the economic crisis in the eurozone. Addressing More>>
The 2nd Annual New York Baby Show, which is the largest consumer show for new and expectant parents, returns the weekend of May 19 and 20. The show, presented by New York Family magazine, takes place More>>
The 32nd Brooklyn Half Marathon had 15,000 runners take part on Saturday. The event began near the Brooklyn Museum shortly after 7 a.m. and concluded at Coney Island's historic boardwalk. The first More>>
Police are searching for two men suspected of stealing a woman's iPhone in Queens and are still on the loose. Authorities say the suspects followed the victim as she walked home last Friday night around More>>
Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in February, had traces of marijuana in his system at the time of his death, according to an autopsy report released Thursday. More>>
Nearly $800 million in federal grant money authorized and appropriated by federal agencies remained unspent for years, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.
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An airline pilot is accused of trying to board a flight to New York City with a loaded revolver in his bag, and federal authorities believe he'd been flying with it for two days. More>>
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