11:51, 19 May 2019

The Senate's top Democrat is calling on the federal government to step in and investigate whether a plan for new subway cars in New York City designed by a Chinese state-owned company could pose a ...

15:24, 18 May 2019

Firefighters have responded to the scene of digital billboard on fire in Times Square.Flames stated shooting out of the LED billboard just after 3 p.m. Saturday.The Fire Department says no injuries have been reported and ...

19:31, 17 May 2019

The U.S. Border Patrol said Friday that it would fly hundreds of migrant families from south Texas to San Diego for processing and that it was considering flights to Detroit, Miami and Buffalo, New York. The ...

16:14, 17 May 2019

With friends like these, Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn't need enemies.New York Attorney General Letitia James expressed exasperation on the "Pod Save America" podcast late Thursday over her fellow Democrat's decision to run for president.She ...

02:53, 17 May 2019

The U.S. Coast Guard says a World War II-era shipwreck off Long Island is leaking oil through two pinpoint leaks. It is conducting an assessment of the remaining oil aboard the British tanker Coimbra, which ...

00:27, 17 May 2019

Ian Kinsler hit a go-ahead, three-run homer for the San Diego Padres, who beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Thursday night and set the major league record by going 8,020 games without a no-hitter since their ...

21:25, 16 May 2019

The New York Police Department used a photo of Woody Harrelson in its facial recognition program in an attempt to identify a beer thief who looked like the actor, according to a report published Thursday.Georgetown ...

15:16, 16 May 2019

Every year, around May 13, you will find thousands of Falun Dafa practitioners openly meditating in New York City’s Manhattan and neighboring boroughs—very happy to show anyone who wants to learn the five exercises known ...

15:01, 16 May 2019

A Hudson River educational sloop that was the brainchild of the late activist musician Pete Seeger and his friends is marking its 50th anniversary.Some of the Clearwater 's founders and crew members will gather with ...

11:00, 16 May 2019

Denying children a hot meal apparently isn't a popular way for schools to deal with unpaid lunch money.After a flood of angry Facebook comments and phone calls, a Rhode Island district last week abandoned its ...

06:30, 16 May 2019

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday, May 16, that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, adding his name to an already long list of candidates itching for a chance to ...

14:36, 15 May 2019

The famous winged TWA terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport came out of its decades-long retirement Wednesday with a new life as a luxury hotel."How beautiful is this?" said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ...

11:37, 15 May 2019

Critics have generally not been kind to the new Hudson Yards complex.The new neighborhood, built atop a platform over train yards on the west side of Manhattan, features sleek glass towers with stratospherically expensive residential, ...

10:37, 15 May 2019

Food Network star Sandra Lee says she and her longtime partner, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, are selling their house in the New York City suburbs.Lee tells The New York Times that the 1950s ...

20:15, 14 May 2019

One of Claude Monet's iconic paintings of haystacks has fetched a record $110.7 million at an auction in New York.Monet's "Meules" sold at Sotheby's sale of Impressionist & Modern Art Tuesday night. The auction house ...

16:36, 14 May 2019

Thousands of people are gathering in New York this week to celebrate an ancient meditation practice of mind and body, which is embraced in the United States and many other countries. But the Chinese Communist ...

15:12, 14 May 2019

Tenants from around New York state gathered in Albany on Tuesday to push for stronger rental protections to address a shortage of affordable housing — a problem that they say is no longer confined to ...

09:53, 14 May 2019

Call them zombie cells — they refuse to die.As they build up in your body, studies suggest, they promote aging and the conditions that come with it like osteoporosis and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers are studying ...

00:02, 13 May 2019

A long-delayed disciplinary trial is set to begin for the New York City police officer accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner.Officer Daniel Pantaleo's trial is scheduled to ...

21:30, 10 May 2019

Amed Rosario hit a grand slam during an eight-run outburst that marked the Mets' biggest first inning in three decades, and New York rolled to an 11-2 rout of the Miami Marlins on Friday night.Michael ...

11:53, 20 May 2019

The U.S. government says a 16-year-old Guatemalan died Monday at a Border Patrol station in South Texas, the fifth death of a migrant child apprehended by border agents since December. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said ...

10:38, 20 May 2019

A 23-year-old transgender woman seen on a widely circulated video being beaten in front of a crowd of people was found dead over the weekend in a Dallas shooting, police said. Muhlaysia Booker was found face-down ...

20:50, 19 May 2019

Forecasters say four tornadoes struck parts of West Texas in severe weather that damaged some homes and businesses.The National Weather Service on Sunday reported two tornadoes hit parts of San Angelo a day earlier. Another ...

11:54, 19 May 2019

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement pilot of new DNA testing at the border discovered that approximately one-third of those tested were not biologically linked to their custody kids. ICE conducted the pilot in El Paso and ...

11:34, 19 May 2019

An eight-year-old girl was found safe seven hours later in a hotel room in Texas before police arrested a 51-year-old suspect in her kidnapping. At a hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, at around 2 am Sunday, ...

11:32, 19 May 2019

Testimony has ended in the lawsuit by some Texas residents seeking U.S. government compensation after their land flooded when two federally owned reservoirs overflowed during Hurricane Harvey.The Houston Chronicle reports testimony wrapped up Friday in ...

23:02, 18 May 2019

A South Texas church begins a new chapter of worship on Sunday as it unveils a new sanctuary a year and half after a gunman opened fire and killed more than two dozen congregants in ...

16:29, 18 May 2019

A spate of tornadoes raked across the Southern Plains, leaving damage and causing few injuries, and parts of the region were bracing for more severe thunderstorms and possible flooding. Tornadoes touched down Friday in Kansas and ...

15:54, 18 May 2019

The mother of a 4-year-old Texas girl who hasn't been seen for weeks says she wants to hope her daughter is still alive.Brittany Bowens told KTRK television Friday that she may never know what really ...

12:14, 18 May 2019

Actor Matthew McConaughey has finally received his high school diploma, more than 30 years after graduating.McConaughey was given his original diploma Friday night when he returned to his Texas alma mater to address the class ...

11:18, 17 May 2019

A Texas man used a hacksaw to cut off his mother's head before fleeing and leading police on a chase into Oklahoma last week before they arrested him, authorities said. Isaac Israel Warriner, 22, was being ...

22:26, 16 May 2019

We're in for another comparatively quiet climate day before early Saturday a row of heavy thunderstorms rumble to southwest Texas. Chief Meteorologist Travis Herzog suggests that the Gulf Brise may give us a few short ...

19:40, 16 May 2019

The lawyer for the family of a woman who was fatally shot by a Houston-area police cop says the officer knew she suffered from mental illness.

17:09, 16 May 2019

Advocates raised new alarms Thursday about the U.S. government's treatment of migrant families after a 2½-year-old Guatemalan child became the fourth minor known to have died after being detained by border agents since December. "The death ...

16:31, 16 May 2019

A Dallas man previously arrested in the death of an 81-year-old woman has been charged with killing at least six other elderly women whose jewelry and other valuables he stole, authorities said Thursday. Kim Leach, a ...

14:50, 15 May 2019

Brazil's president is dismissing protests against his cuts to education funding, saying the student demonstrators are "useful idiots" who have "nothing in their heads".President Jair Bolsonaro spoke from Dallas, Texas, even as large crowds gathered ...

14:04, 15 May 2019

Stained-glass windows honoring some religious leaders who helped shift the Southern Baptist Convention to a more conservative stance have been removed from a North Texas chapel.The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Wednesday that the windows featured ...

12:56, 15 May 2019

New photos capture the dramatic rescue of a 7-year-old boy from Honduras who nearly drowned in the river separating the U.S. and Mexico until Border Patrol agents rescued him. The San Antonio Express-News reported Wednesday on ...

12:06, 15 May 2019

A former military dog trainer and his now-retired canine partner have been reunited in an emotional encounter in Texas.Aaron Stice (stys) was a corporal in the Marines when he last saw the Belgian Malinois (mal-ihn-WAH') ...

21:52, 14 May 2019

A police officer shot and killed a woman at a Houston-area apartment complex after she hit him with his Taser during a struggle, shocking him, police said. In a video recorded by a witness and posted ...

23:15, 19 May 2019

Lori Lightfoot will have a powerful ally after she's sworn in Monday as Chicago mayor in seeking to fulfill a campaign promise to overhaul the Police Department in the nation's third-largest city: a judge with ...

09:24, 19 May 2019

A wildlife biologist has taken prairie chickens from Kansas, which has a more robust population, and released them in Illinois in an effort to boost the population of the endangered birds.The birds once numbered in ...

15:46, 18 May 2019

Police and Illinois' child welfare agency say staff at a Chicago-area hospital didn't alert them after determining that a bloodied woman who arrived with a gravely ill newborn had not just given birth to the ...

14:24, 17 May 2019

A pregnant Chicago teen who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers, a prosecutor said ...

16:05, 16 May 2019

The grisly act is rare, yet it's common enough to have a name: fetal abduction. The latest case out of Chicago — in which 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and her baby cut from her womb ...

15:06, 16 May 2019

A pregnant woman who had gone to a Chicago home in response to a Facebook offer of free baby clothes was strangled and her baby cut from her womb, police and family members said. The newborn ...

09:26, 15 May 2019

Authorities in Peoria say a 4-year-old boy died when gunfire intended for someone else struck him three times in the back and arm.Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Tuesday that Jeremiah L. Ward died from ...

17:32, 10 May 2019

More than 100 people gathered Friday along a chain-link fence outside a badly damaged Illinois silicone factory to remember four men who died in an explosion at the facility. The mourners at AB Specialty Silicones factory ...

11:05, 09 May 2019

The FBI has added a man to its Ten Most Wanted list who's accused of killing his wife just hours after their 2012 wedding.The FBI says 37-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez of Chicago may have fled to ...

16:17, 08 May 2019

Rain swamping the nation's midsection forced people from their homes in Kansas, stranded dozens of Texas children at school overnight and strained levees along the surging Mississippi River in Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere Wednesday prompting ...

17:13, 05 May 2019

Search and rescue personnel found the body of another worker Sunday in the rubble of a northern Illinois silicone plant that exploded and burst into flames two days ago, bringing the death toll to three ...

16:47, 05 May 2019

The Latest on the explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone plant (all times local):4:30 p.m.Search and rescue personnel have located and are recovering the body of a third employee killed in the explosion and ...

20:08, 04 May 2019

The Latest on an explosion at and Illinois (all times local):8 p.m.A second person has died as a result of injuries suffered from an explosion at an Illinois factory.Initially, one body was found at the ...

15:16, 04 May 2019

An explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone factory was believed to have killed three people, authorities said Saturday, as they recovered the body of one victim while suspending the search for the other two. Crews ...

10:19, 04 May 2019

A 90-year-old great-grandfather is about make history by becoming the oldest student to earn a bachelor's degree from Northeastern Illinois University since the school started keeping records in 1962.Bob Dwyer, a great-grandfather, Army veteran and ...

17:57, 03 May 2019

Hundreds of people have converged on a northern Illinois funeral home to pay respects to a 5-year-old boy whose parents have been charged with his murder. The opportunity to file past the body of AJ Freunds' ...

09:18, 02 May 2019

Court records show that video police recovered from an Illinois woman's cellphone showing her bruised 5-year-old son prompted the boy's father to lead investigators to the child's body.JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr. of Crystal ...

11:50, 30 Apr 2019

Chicago's top prosecutor is fighting a push to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her office's handling of the case against actor Jussie Smollett. Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx says she'd welcome an independent probe ...

12:48, 26 Apr 2019

Illinois' child-welfare agency removed two employees from case work Friday while officials review their interaction with a family whose 5-year-old son was found beaten to death and covered in plastic in a shallow grave. The Department ...

12:25, 26 Apr 2019

Illinois parents are facing murder charges in the beating death of their son, 5-year-old Andrew "AJ" Freund, whose body was found wrapped in plastic and buried in a shallow grave. The family previously had interaction ...

09:42, 20 May 2019

Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods is debuting its second product — meatless sausage crumbles — on Little Caesars pizza.Little Caesars will start testing the Impossible Supreme Pizza on Monday at 58 restaurants in Fort Myers, ...

20:37, 19 May 2019

A wooden temple built as a memorial to the 17 victims of a Florida high school mass shooting has been set ablaze in a symbolic gesture of healing.The "Temple of Time" public art installation was ...

16:48, 19 May 2019

President Donald Trump on Sunday denied reports that hundreds of migrants would be flown from the Mexican border to Florida and other areas in the U.S. interior to lessen the workload at crowded Border Patrol ...

16:12, 17 May 2019

Florida's governor plans to fight any federal plans to fly hundreds of immigrants weekly from the Mexican border to South Florida, saying Friday he'll take his case to President Donald Trump. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made ...

04:00, 17 May 2019

A small airplane made an emergency landing on a Florida highway ramp during rush hour and crashed into a car. News outlets report the plane landed on an Interstate 4 on-ramp just north of Orlando. ...

21:14, 16 May 2019

A small airplane made an emergency landing on a Florida highway ramp during rush hour and crashed into a car.News outlets report the plane landed Thursday around 5:30 p.m. on an Interstate 4 on-ramp in ...

17:56, 16 May 2019

While Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis takes a large entourage of business leaders through Israel, the state's Democratic agriculture commissioner will take her own course through the country.The idea isn't to boost exports of Florida ...

16:48, 16 May 2019

Officials in South Florida say they are frantically preparing for an influx of immigrants being sent by the federal government as the number camped along the U.S. Mexico border grows rapidly. Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen ...

12:41, 16 May 2019

Members of Florida's congressional delegation said Thursday it was unacceptable that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security will not publicly identify the two counties where Russian hackers gained access to voter databases before ...

09:46, 16 May 2019

A Tesla Model S involved in a fatal crash with a semitrailer in Florida March 1 was operating on the company's semi-autonomous Autopilot system, federal investigators have determined.The car drove beneath the trailer, killing the ...

23:09, 15 May 2019

President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure report is expected to provide a rare glimpse into whether his presidency has helped or hurt his hotels, golf resorts and other parts of his business empire. The report, which ...

15:51, 15 May 2019

The Los Angeles Sparks re-signed free agent Riquna Williams, who was arrested last month after fight with her ex-girlfriend at a Florida home.According to an arrest report, Williams forced her way inside and repeatedly struck ...

12:13, 15 May 2019

The U.S. government is providing long-distance video counseling to teens housed at the country's largest child migrant detention center as officials struggle to accommodate increasing numbers of minors illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Some mental ...

09:44, 15 May 2019

Authorities say a Florida woman ran back into her burning apartment after realizing her two children hadn't made it out. All three died in the fire. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said during a Wednesday morning ...

12:03, 14 May 2019

Three Democratic lawmakers are asking a government watchdog agency to investigate how a private company tied to former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly secured a no-bid contract to hold migrant children in a ...

08:21, 14 May 2019

The parents of a drunken driver who died in a car crash last year are suing Tiger Woods. They blame the golfer and his girlfriend for allowing their son to drive home from their Florida ...

00:14, 14 May 2019

A fatal shooting outside a crowded South Florida beachfront hotel. Another on a busy Miami Beach street. A third with no serious injuries on a major highway. All involved hip-hop performers or guests of the Rolling ...

03:06, 13 May 2019

Three people were shot in a possible road rage incident outside Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles, Florida on Sunday. Police are investigating a shooting near one of President Donald Trump's resorts in Florida that ...

11:35, 12 May 2019

Officials say Florida rapper Kodak Black was arrested on federal and state weapons charges just before he was to perform at a hip-hop festival.The U.S. Marshals office says in a news release that the 21-year-old ...

02:01, 11 May 2019

A quiet South Beach neighborhood tucked away near bustling City Hall and Lincoln Road has become a battleground between preservationists and homeowners who want more freedom over their properties.Residents of the leafy Palm View neighborhood ...

07:52, 18 May 2019

Ask Vivian Loh a simple question, like her age, and you may not get a simple answer."4,687 days," the Squirrel Hill resident answers softly and without hesitation, sitting in an office at the Winchester Thurston ...

10:39, 17 May 2019

Authorities say one person has been killed and another is missing after an explosion destroyed a home in northeastern Pennsylvania. Officials say emergency responders found 20-year-old Nathan Hedgepeth injured but alive just before 2 a.m. Friday ...

09:59, 15 May 2019

A civil suit says a Pennsylvania pediatric practice knew that one of its physicians was a threat to molest young patients but covered it up. The suit says Laurel Pediatric Associates in Johnstown knew at least ...

16:48, 14 May 2019

The Pennsylvania judge who presided over Bill Cosby's sex-assault case says he let five other accusers testify at Cosby's retrial because they showed his actions were "so distinctive" they became "a signature."A jury last year ...

13:44, 14 May 2019

Pennsylvania's state attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the company that makes OxyContin of fueling the opioid epidemic, making it at least the 39th state to make such a claim against Purdue Pharma.Attorney General ...

09:14, 12 May 2019

Pennsylvania's primary election will decide nominees or officeholders for several high-profile offices, including mayor of the nation's sixth largest city and one of the state's 18 members of the U.S. House. Pennsylvania's primary election is May ...

13:56, 10 May 2019

Fraternities and sororities will no longer be allowed at Swarthmore College.School President Valerie Smith made the announcement Friday.It comes after the only two fraternities at the private liberal arts college in suburban Philadelphia decided to ...

13:49, 07 May 2019

Nearly a dozen lucky ducks have been rescued by eastern Pennsylvania firefighters after falling through a sewer grate and out of sight of their distressed mother.Emergency workers were called Tuesday morning to a street in ...

16:14, 06 May 2019

Demonstrators chanted "stop taking bribes" and threw dollar bills from a balcony in Pennsylvania's House chamber Monday as part of a protest over state law that does not limit the value of gifts that lawmakers ...

16:12, 06 May 2019

Gun rights advocates packed the rotunda of the Pennsylvania Capitol on Monday for an annual Second Amendment rally, pushing their legislative priorities and cheering a call for the Pittsburgh mayor's impeachment.Gun owners roared when the ...

15:29, 06 May 2019

Police from around Pennsylvania are honoring four members of law enforcement who were killed or died last year from injuries sustained while on duty.Monday's ceremony in the Forum auditorium adjacent to the state Capitol was ...

10:41, 02 May 2019

U.S. Steel will invest more than $1 billion on state-of-the-art facilities in western Pennsylvania that it says will improve its steelmaking efficiency and reduce emissions at its Mon Valley Works operations.The company says new casting ...

15:56, 01 May 2019

The Latest on a judge's decision to throw out the conviction of former Penn State President Graham Spanier (all times local):4:55 p.m.Lawyers for former Penn State President Graham Spanier say they're stunned by the comments ...

15:50, 01 May 2019

Hundreds of nuclear power plant workers rallied at Pennsylvania's Capitol amid hearings on legislation to charge ratepayers more to subsidize nuclear power.Workers from Pennsylvania's five plants repeated warnings Wednesday that their jobs and future are ...

07:41, 01 May 2019

The only two fraternities at Swarthmore College have decided to disband amid outrage over documents containing derogatory comments about women and the LGBTQ community and jokes about sexual assault.The decisions to disband Delta Upsilon and ...

11:04, 29 Apr 2019

The Latest on former Vice President Joe Biden and his 2020 campaign (all times local): Noon President Donald Trump is claiming support from rank-and-file union members as Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden prepares to address an organized ...

11:01, 29 Apr 2019

By picking Pennsylvania for his first campaign speech of the presidential race, Joe Biden is signaling he hopes to own what may be the 2020 election's toughest battleground. Planting a flag in Pennsylvania makes sense for ...

05:06, 24 Apr 2019

A former Pennsylvania mayor convicted of exchanging public works contracts for campaign contributions is set to be sentenced as part of a federal pay-to-play investigation that led to raids of two city halls a week ...

10:36, 19 Apr 2019

To understand Pennsylvania's fast-changing political geography, look no further than Tom Killion. After Democrats recently flipped six state Senate seats in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Killion is one of the chamber's last Republicans standing ...

16:50, 17 Apr 2019

A Pennsylvania state government watchdog agency has launched an investigation into the horrific case of a 14-year-old girl who had extensive contact with the child welfare system before her 2016 rape, torture and murder, a ...