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15:32, 19 Mar 2019

Days after a climbable sculpture called the Vessel opened at New York's Hudson Yards megadevelopment, critics are questioning a policy that grants the attraction's owners broad rights to use photos posted by visitors.The 150-foot lattice ...

06:08, 19 Mar 2019

Laura Levine says she never smoked a cigarette or touched a drink until age 35. Then the mother of five tried heroin, and she was hooked. After some brushes with the law — petty larceny to ...

15:41, 18 Mar 2019

Most voters in New York think it was bad for the state when Amazon dropped plans to put a second headquarters in Queens and many think U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bears blame for the deal ...

10:54, 18 Mar 2019

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday in a fight over control of the nation's oldest synagogue and its religious bells worth millions, leaving in place a ruling that the Rhode Island synagogue will ...

23:05, 17 Mar 2019

The girls, a dozen of them 15 to 18 years old, file into a conference room in a downtown Brooklyn office building, taking seats in chairs carefully arranged in a circle. On the floor in ...

19:29, 17 Mar 2019

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday criticized former President Barack Obama during a small gathering as he mulls a run for president, saying that Obama's early days in office were "a lost window." Minutes ...

17:37, 16 Mar 2019

A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday in the shooting death of the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, New York City police said. Anthony Comello was arrested in New Jersey in the death of Francesco ...

11:02, 16 Mar 2019

On-time budgets have long been a priority for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a way to demonstrate government effectiveness.That's why it is noteworthy that Cuomo's top budget director is now warning the budget may ...

12:10, 15 Mar 2019

New York's $25 billion Hudson Yards development is open to the public.People lined up on Friday to climb the 2,500 steps to the top of a massive sculpture named Vessel.It's the visual centerpiece of a ...

10:36, 15 Mar 2019

A long-missing peace pipe tomahawk President George Washington gave to a Seneca leader in the late 18th century has been returned to the tribe in western New York.Washington gave the combination tobacco-smoking pipe and weapon ...

00:15, 15 Mar 2019

An ale introduced at a New York craft beer festival this month comes with an intriguing backstory — brewed from yeast in beer that went down on a doomed steamship and languished on the ocean ...

17:24, 14 Mar 2019

The reputed boss of New York's Gambino crime family was shot to death in front of his home by a gunman who may have staged a car accident to lure him outside, dying a virtual ...

14:46, 14 Mar 2019

One of the five victims of a house fire in western Massachusetts has been identified by her employer as a patent attorney with an Albany, New York firm.Hoffman Warnick said Thursday that Justine Wilbur "died ...

13:43, 14 Mar 2019

This season of "The Bachelor" may have begun with 30 women competing for Colton Underwood's heart, but the series was turned upside down when front-runner Cassie Randolph bowed out. Suddenly the hunted became the hunter, ...

11:49, 14 Mar 2019

Democratic presidential contender Kirsten Gillibrand will campaign in Michigan next week.The U.S. senator from New York will join Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday at a meet-and-greet event hosted by Fems for Dems in Clawson ...

11:48, 14 Mar 2019

The Tribeca Film The Tribeca Film Festival has added a "Say Anything..." reunion screening to its upcoming festival, as well as the premiere of a documentary on Phish lead singer and guitarist Trey Anastasio.Tribeca announced ...

00:06, 14 Mar 2019

Lawyers for the Chinese electronics giant Huawei (HWAH'-way) are due in court in a U.S. case charging the company with violating Iran trade sanctions.The company is to be arraigned Thursday morning on an indictment filed ...

23:02, 13 Mar 2019

A towering sculpture called Vessel — made up of 2,500 twisting steps the public can climb — is scheduled to open Friday as the visual centerpiece of Hudson Yards, a $25 billion urban complex on ...

17:45, 13 Mar 2019

A co-founder of an embattled upstate New York self-help organization pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a case featuring sensational claims that some followers became branded sex slaves. An emotional Nancy Salzman told a judge in federal ...

17:37, 13 Mar 2019

Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison on federal charges Wednesday, then was hit almost immediately with fresh state charges in New York. In Washington, U.S. District Judge ...

05:39, 20 Mar 2019

Shares in Germany's Bayer have plunged after a U.S. jury found the Roundup weed killer was a substantial factor in a California man's cancer — the second case that has gone against manufacturer Monsanto, acquired ...

01:37, 20 Mar 2019

California is calling in the National Guard for the first time next month to help protect communities from devastating fires like the one that largely destroyed the city of Paradise last fall. It's pulling the troops ...

17:41, 19 Mar 2019

Travelers flying in and out of Los Angeles International Airport are being treated to a rare visual spectacle of large wildflower fields coming into bloom between runways.Heavy winter rains spawned the super bloom of flowers ...

15:33, 19 Mar 2019

California's chief justice on Tuesday praised the racial and gender diversity of judges appointed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and highlighted women in leadership roles in state government.Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye noted that more than ...

14:12, 19 Mar 2019

The University of Southern California says a review of students possibly connected to a college admissions bribery scandal could lead to expulsions.The university said in a statement Monday it has placed holds on the accounts ...

22:45, 18 Mar 2019

The Latest on river dangers in California (all times local):8:30 p.m.Authorities say search teams have found the body of a man who fell into a rain-swollen river in Northern California over the weekend.In this Sunday, ...

20:19, 18 Mar 2019

A woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of her 9-year-old daughter was found in a duffel bag along a suburban horse trail near Los Angeles, authorities said Monday.Taquesta Graham, 28, is ...

19:53, 18 Mar 2019

Like Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz," the Southern California city of Lake Elsinore is being overwhelmed by the power of the poppies. About 150,000 people over the weekend flocked to see this year's rain-fed flaming ...

17:26, 18 Mar 2019

Standing beside the family of a 22-year-old black man who was fatally shot by police a year ago Monday, the Rev. Al Sharpton called for California to make it easier to prosecute officers who kill ...

17:12, 18 Mar 2019

Searchers combed a river in the Sierra Nevada foothills for a little girl swept away during the weekend, and two people were rescued in Los Angeles early Monday, putting a focus on dangers resulting from ...

16:24, 18 Mar 2019

The Latest on the public drunkenness arrest of Peru's former president (all times local):2:20 p.m.Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo brushed off questions about his arrest on suspicion of public drunkenness during a radio interview.En esta ...

15:57, 18 Mar 2019

Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, wanted in his home country in connection with Latin America's biggest graft scandal, was arrested in California on suspicion of public intoxication and spent the night in jail before he ...

17:20, 16 Mar 2019

Police say a robbery suspect died Saturday following brief shootout outside the Bellagio hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip while an officer who was shot in his bulletproof vest escaped serious injury. Police Capt. Nichole Splinter ...

10:32, 16 Mar 2019

President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing back on a media report that claimed no new walls had been built along the southern border with Mexico. The Daily Mail published a story on Thursday that said the Trump administration has built ...

17:56, 15 Mar 2019

A new survey has found a sharp decline in desert bighorn sheep in Southern California, and biologists suspect the cause is a disease contracted from domestic animals.The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says a ...

15:56, 15 Mar 2019

A video shot at a section of U.S.-Mexico border wall dividing a beach shows dozens of migrants squeezing through a breach in a metal fence, and then running north along the sand into California. U.S. Border ...

14:15, 15 Mar 2019

State officials say debris removal on Northern California hills scarred by a deadly wildfire will resume next week after being suspended for 10 days because of wet, unstable slopes.CalRecycle spokesman Lance Klug said Friday that ...

13:32, 15 Mar 2019

Did people domesticate dogs or was it the other way around? And why do these two species seem to think so much alike, act so much alike and get along so well? The California Science Center ...

23:33, 14 Mar 2019

Tesla is unveiling its newest vehicle, the Model Y, an SUV that the automaker hopes will win over consumers looking for an all-electric alternative in the most popular segment of the auto market.CEO Elon Musk ...

20:38, 14 Mar 2019

Authorities say small animals including turtles, snakes and parakeets are feared dead in a fire at a Southern California reptile museum.Jenny Smith with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department tells the Los Angeles Times that ...

17:02, 19 Mar 2019

Experts say recent rain across much of Texas has contributed to a spectacular 2019 wildflowers season.The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department on Tuesday announced the colorful displays range from bluebonnets to buttercups to Indian blanket. ...

09:39, 19 Mar 2019

Authorities say a drop in water pressure caused a large fire at a Houston-area petrochemicals terminal to intensify overnight and spread to additional storage tanks.The Deer Park Office of Emergency Management says the fire spread ...

18:09, 18 Mar 2019

Former President George W. Bush welcomed new U.S. citizens Monday during a naturalization ceremony in Dallas, saying that "amid all the complications of policy, may we never forget that immigration is a blessing and a ...

12:30, 18 Mar 2019

The Latest on a fire at a Texas petrochemicals plant (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Officials say a large fire at petrochemicals terminal near Houston will likely burn for another two days. The fire erupted Sunday at Intercontinental ...

08:46, 18 Mar 2019

Emergency crews in Texas are working to control a large fire burning at a Houston-area petrochemicals terminal that has spread to eight storage tanks. The fire started Sunday morning at Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, ...

12:19, 16 Mar 2019

Two proposed bills could give Texas landowners more options should electric transmission towers be put up on or near their property.Republican Sen. Larry Taylor has introduced a bill that would require utilities to notify nearby ...

16:54, 15 Mar 2019

Lawmakers looking to shrink Texas' prison population and costs are considering a bill that would allow some people convicted of committing serious crimes as minors to apply for parole in half the time they're currently ...

12:54, 15 Mar 2019

Some Southeast Texas residents have complained about brighter public street lines creating an unwelcome glare inside their homes. The Galveston County Daily News reported Friday that the updated street lights in Galveston are light-emitting diode, or ...

12:46, 15 Mar 2019

A Puerto Rico woman found guilty of hiring a hit man to kill her wealthy Canadian husband more than a decade ago was sentenced to life in prison on Friday. Aurea Vazquez Rijos cried as a ...

11:44, 15 Mar 2019

American Airlines is stopping flights to Venezuela because of safety concerns after the pilots' union told its members to refuse to work the flights.American was the last major U.S. carrier to fly to the troubled ...

13:09, 14 Mar 2019

Leaders of a South Texas county have rejected a proposal to buy and demolish a historic courthouse built in 1914 but abandoned years ago and now in disrepair.Nueces County Commissioners on Wednesday refused an offer ...

06:20, 14 Mar 2019

U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley apprehend the largest group encountered in the area so far this year. On Wednesday morning, just after midnight, McAllen agents working near Granjeno, Texas, responded to a ...

20:59, 13 Mar 2019

Democrat Beto O'Rourke has told a Texas TV station that he's running for president in 2020.The former Texas congressman sent a text message to KTSM Wednesday afternoon confirming the news that he will seek the ...

16:48, 13 Mar 2019

Aviation experts say they doubt turbulence could have brought down a cargo jet that crashed into a Texas bay in February, speculating that human error or a massive malfunction are more likely culprits.The National Transportation ...

16:00, 13 Mar 2019

A window-rattling late winter storm brought blizzards, high winds, rain or floods to more than 25 states Wednesday, stretching from the northern Rocky Mountains to Texas and beyond. "This is a very epic cyclone," said Greg ...

11:14, 13 Mar 2019

Border Patrol Agent Joe Romero looks across into Anapra, Mexico, his gaze fixed on a woman and two children walking with determination past Monument One, an official border marker for the spot where New Mexico, ...

10:32, 13 Mar 2019

Severe thunderstorms in North Texas have left at least one person hurt, damaged buildings and flipped small planes at a suburban airport.The Storm Prediction Center says gusts of more than 75 mph (120 kph) were ...

17:08, 12 Mar 2019

The head coach of men's tennis at the University of Texas is among three people in the state charged in a scheme that involved wealthy parents bribing college coaches and others to gain admissions for ...

16:03, 12 Mar 2019

A Boeing 767 appears to have hit turbulence a minute before it entered a steep descent that ended when the plane smashed into a Texas bay in February, killing all three people aboard , according ...

11:12, 12 Mar 2019

A Texas medical examiner confirms that Freeda George Foreman, the daughter of former heavyweight champion George Foreman, died by suicide.Emergency crews found the 42-year-old woman while responding to a suburban Houston home on Friday. The ...

00:23, 15 Mar 2019

A late-winter storm system continued its trek across the Midwest, expecting to send rain and snow into Minnesota and Illinois on Friday after leaving devastating flooding in parts of eastern Nebraska and Iowa. The quickly rising ...

13:45, 13 Mar 2019

Authorities say a 4-year-old boy and his grandparents were rescued after their small plane crashed in southern Illinois. The fixed-wing single-engine Piper PA-32 was traveling from Mobile, Alabama, when it went down Tuesday in rural Monroe ...

10:38, 12 Mar 2019

The half-sister of an Illinois man accused of fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy says he is "not a monster."Christina Brown spoke after a hearing Monday for her half-brother, 39-year-old Floyd E. Brown. He's charged with ...

18:27, 10 Mar 2019

A judge has ordered a 19-year-old woman held without bond on attempted murder and other charges in the shooting of a Chicago police officer serving a warrant. Police say Emily Petronella fired a shot through a ...

18:36, 09 Mar 2019

In fiscal year 2018, the CFO intercepted more than 24,000 packages of narcotics, weighing more than 30,000 pounds in mail and express consignment. The number of packages seized by CBP officers in CFO is the ...

15:24, 07 Mar 2019

A man suspected of shooting a sheriff's deputy and a woman Thursday at an Illinois hotel crashed his vehicle along an interstate highway while trying to flee police, and "negotiation efforts" were underway, authorities said. Prosecutors ...

18:53, 22 Feb 2019

A soggy South saw floodwaters push into homes and submerge highways Friday as a week of relentless rain continued to pound the Mississippi and Tennessee valleys. Saturday could be worse across parts of eastern Arkansas, northern ...

16:26, 22 Feb 2019

The Latest on flooding and severe weather in the South (all times local): 3:15 p.m. A bridge across the Ohio River between Kentucky and Illinois is closing because of flooding, one of more than 50 highways underwater ...

01:15, 22 Feb 2019

Actor Jussie Smollett was arrested in Chicago early Thursday, one day after prosecutors charged him with filing a false police report for what he claimed was a racist and homophobic attack last month. Smollett has been ...

01:07, 22 Feb 2019

Police tapped into Chicago's vast network of surveillance cameras — and even some homeowners' doorbell cameras — to track down two brothers who later claimed they were paid by "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett to stage ...

20:01, 21 Feb 2019

Two brothers who told police that Jussie Smollett paid them $3,500 to help stage an attack on himself were linked to the actor through the "Empire" television series, and court documents filed Thursday allege one ...

16:22, 21 Feb 2019

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson took it personally when detectives determined that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett allegedly lied about being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack . Speaking Thursday at a news conference, Johnson ...

22:00, 20 Feb 2019

A small funeral home was packed with hundreds of mourners for a 21-year-old college student who was killed on the first day of his internship when a worker opened fire inside an Illinois manufacturing facility.Trevor ...

16:28, 19 Feb 2019

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Tuesday gave the green light to a lawsuit filed by a parks-advocacy group that aims to stop for good the delayed construction of former President Barack Obama’s $500 million ...

12:27, 18 Feb 2019

An Illinois man who has delivered more than 26,000 white crosses to sites around the U.S., largely to remember victims of gun violence, now finds himself doing the same in his hometown.Greg Zanis made crosses ...

19:29, 16 Feb 2019

The Latest on the mass shooting at a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Authorities say a human resources manager, a plant manager and an intern were among the five people killed by a ...

18:04, 16 Feb 2019

The Latest on the mass shooting at a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois (all times local): ___ 2:15 p.m. One of the five people who were killed by a fired worker at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse was a ...

16:36, 16 Feb 2019

Hundreds of officers swarmed the scene Friday after receiving reports that there was a man shooting people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing warehouse. Authorities on Saturday provided a detailed account of the harrowing events that unfolded ...

19:40, 15 Feb 2019

An employee of a manufacturing company opened fire at its suburban Chicago plant Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said. Aurora, Illinois, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told ...

02:31, 14 Feb 2019

Odds still favor the eventual construction of Barack Obama's $500 million presidential museum and library in a public park along Chicago's lakeshore. But it's no longer a sure thing in the face of a formidable ...

16:55, 18 Mar 2019

A former Pennsylvania pediatrician was sentenced Monday to at least 79 years in prison for sexually assaulting 31 children, most of them patients, as his now-adult victims blasted not only their abuser but the system ...

00:06, 18 Mar 2019

A former Pennsylvania pediatrician is scheduled for sentencing Monday in the sexual assault of 31 children, most of them patients, in a case that state medical regulators failed to act on nearly two decades ago. Dr. ...

08:32, 16 Mar 2019

They are talking about nuclear power across rural Pennsylvania.This spring, the question of whether to rescue Pennsylvania's nuclear power plants could dominate debate in the state Capitol, and that's of keen financial interest to hundreds ...

00:09, 15 Mar 2019

A Pennsylvania jury will decide on life or death for a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty in the 2016 rape, murder and dismemberment of his girlfriend's teenage daughter. Jacob Sullivan, 46, pleaded guilty to all charges ...

23:09, 10 Mar 2019

Legislation designed to pump hundreds of millions of ratepayer dollars into Three Mile Island and Pennsylvania's other nuclear power plants is being introduced Monday and could usher in heated debate over whether the plants deserve ...

12:33, 09 Mar 2019

State and local government records that have been stolen or have otherwise ended up in private hands without authorization would be much easier to reclaim under legislation that could pass the Pennsylvania House in the ...

15:31, 07 Mar 2019

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered a review of complaints against the oldest reform school in the country after a newspaper investigation detailed decades of alleged abuse and cover-ups at the campus.Lawmakers and children's advocates ...

17:21, 06 Mar 2019

Police officers for the Philadelphia region's main transit system went on strike Wednesday, citing poor working conditions for the 178 officers that patrol stations.Members of the Fraternal Order of Transit Police Lodge 109 walked off ...

09:23, 03 Mar 2019

With nuclear power plant owners seeking a rescue in Pennsylvania, a number of state lawmakers are signaling that they are willing to help, with conditions.Giving nuclear power plants what opponents call a bailout could mean ...

15:39, 01 Mar 2019

From a floral recreation of Woodstock to an exploration of the optical effects of psychedelia, the 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show reinterprets 1960s counterculture in a spectacularly trippy way. This year's show, aptly named "Flower Power," opens ...

17:17, 26 Feb 2019

Workers at the former GE Transportation plant in northwestern Pennsylvania have gone on strike for the first time in a half-century, and a day after completion of a merger between GE Transportation and Wabtec.Employees at ...

15:00, 26 Feb 2019

The Latest on a mother and daughter charged in the deaths of five relatives in suburban Philadelphia (all times local): 3 p.m. The adult daughter of a Pennsylvania woman charged with homicide in the deaths of five ...

11:16, 26 Feb 2019

Police found a Pennsylvania woman and her adult daughter in an apartment with the bodies of five relatives they had killed, including three children, authorities said Tuesday. Shana S. Decree, 45, and Dominique Decree, 19, were ...

14:25, 24 Feb 2019

The latest effort by Gov. Tom Wolf to impose a fee on municipalities that rely on state troopers, instead of a local police force, is generating new conversations, if not an embrace, as budget makers ...

13:34, 22 Feb 2019

Pennsylvania's elected auditor said Friday that officials in 18 of the state's 67 counties reported accepting gifts, meals or trips from firms competing to sell or lease new voting machines ahead of the 2020 elections.Auditor ...

17:44, 20 Feb 2019

Pretty much anyone who shops at the Walmart in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, knows store greeter Adam Catlin, who's been welcoming customers with a huge smile and a hearty hello for more than a decade. But Catlin, who ...

18:28, 19 Feb 2019

A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the rape, murder and dismemberment of a 14-year-old girl, and the victim's adoptive mother has agreed to plead guilty and serve a life sentence. Jacob Sullivan, 46, pleaded ...

17:52, 19 Feb 2019

A Pennsylvania college trustee apologized and announced his resignation Tuesday after a student found a 1980 yearbook photo in which the trustee wore a Nazi uniform costume. Gettysburg College President Janet Morgan Riggs said in an ...

13:41, 18 Feb 2019

The new owners of Cincinnati's historic Showboat Majestic plan to continue using the double-decker riverboat as an entertainment venue on the Ohio River.Adams County real estate agent Joe Brumley and his wife, Cortnee, bought the ...

11:42, 18 Feb 2019

Similar program in Vancouver, Canada, has saved hundreds of drug addicts' lives over the past 16 years