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Customs officers search more travelers’ devices

NEW YORK – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are searching the electronic devices of travelers more often and did not always follow proper protocol, a new watchdog report has found...

DATE: Dec 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Officials: Designer Kate Spade found dead in apartment

NEW YORK – Kate Spade, a fashion designer known for her sleek handbags, was found hanged in the bedroom of her Park Avenue apartment Tuesday in an apparent suicide, law enforcement officials...

DATE: Jun 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Pipe bomb strapped to man explodes in NYC subway, injuring 4

NEW YORK – A man with a pipe bomb strapped to his body with Velcro and zip ties set off the crude device in the subway near Times Square on Monday, injuring him and three other people at the...

DATE: Dec 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Aspiring actress details allegations against Weinstein

NEW YORK – An aspiring actress who met Harvey Weinstein by chance in 2014 detailed in tears Tuesday how she said the media mogul made her stand in front of a mirror in his hotel room in Cann...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In terror-wary NYC, security tight for Thanksgiving parade

NEW YORK – Sand-filled sanitation trucks and police sharpshooters will mix with glittering floats and giant balloons at a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that comes in a year of terrible mass...

DATE: Nov 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

What’s next in the criminal probe of Harvey Weinstein

NEW YORK – A criminal investigation by New York police into 2010 rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein does not necessarily mean an arrest is imminent. A look at the case and ...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Puerto Rico tourism craters in wake of Hurricane Maria

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The narrow blue cobblestone streets of Old San Juan are deserted. Cigar shops are boarded up. Boutiques in bright colonial buildings are closed. “It’s like...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

NYC, London police taking fresh look at Weinstein claims

NEW YORK – Police detectives in New York City and London are taking a fresh look into sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein now that some 30 women have accused the Hollywood fi...

DATE: Oct 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Freshman collapses at high school football practice, dies

NEW YORK – A 14-year-old freshman boy collapsed during football practice Tuesday morning and later died at a hospital, police and school officials said. Emergency crews got a call...

DATE: Aug 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Official: Rapper accused of murder thought man hit on him

NEW YORK – A founding member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five stabbed a homeless man to death after a passing remark made him think the man was hitting on him, a law enforcement off...

DATE: Aug 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Music

NYC officer shot to death in command post RV; gunman killed

NEW YORK – A police officer was shot to death early Wednesday, ambushed inside a command post RV by an ex-convict who had ranted online about his treatment in prison and about police getting...

DATE: Jul 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Prosecutors: Times Square driver wanted to ‘kill them all’

Three people remain in critical condition

DATE: May 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World