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September 21, 2016

Formula E electric racing series to race in Brooklyn in 2017

The world's first fully electric racing series will stage a race next year in Brooklyn, where Formula E will host the first ...

September 19, 2016

The best of Vin Scully: Here are five of his greatest calls

The last go-round for the Los Angeles Dodgers' Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully begins on Monday night. The 88-year-old ...

September 19, 2016

New book brings Atlas Obscura site's wonders to printed page

An elf school in Iceland. A hospital for falcons in the Middle East. A museum in Independence, Missouri, for artwork made ...

September 18, 2016

FBI questions car's occupants in NYC blast probe

Agents with the FBI pulled over a car on a highway in Brooklyn on Sunday night and were questioning the vehicle's occupants ...

September 16, 2016

Bill Murray to tend bar at son's Brooklyn restaurant

Some lucky bar goers in New York will see a familiar face serving drinks this weekend as Bill Murray is set to tend bar at ...

September 15, 2016

Colson Whitehead on fiction longlist for National Book Award

Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," already a favorite of critics, readers and Oprah Winfrey, is on the fiction ...

September 14, 2016

Union says agreement ends lockout at NYC university

A union says a 12-day lockout of hundreds of professors at a New York university has ended. The Long Island University ...

September 12, 2016

Authorities: Woman attacks 2 Muslim women pushing strollers

Authorities say a New York City woman attacked two Muslim women who were pushing their young children in strollers and tried ...

September 11, 2016

Transgender actress Alexis Arquette has died at 47

Alexis Arquette, the transgender character actress and sibling of actors David, Rosanna, Richmond and Patricia Arquette, died ...

September 10, 2016

Report: Desiigner released without bail; Gun charges dropped

A Brooklyn rapper has been released without bail on misdemeanor charges after a gun charge was dropped. The Daily News ...

September 08, 2016

Tony Award winner Ben Vereen divorcing wife

Tony Award winner Ben Vereen is divorcing his first wife — again. The New York Post (https://bitly.com/ ) reports Vereen ...

September 05, 2016

Despite more police, West Indian Day events marred by deaths

Revelers in costumes danced as the sounds of steel drums filled the air Monday at the city's annual West Indian Day Parade, ...

August 29, 2016

Police probe brawl that killed college student after party

An Ithaca College student fatally stabbed at Cornell University was attacked while trying to help a fellow student amid a ...

August 21, 2016

NYC remembers dark chapter of Crown Heights race riot

Twenty-five years after race riots scarred a New York City neighborhood, residents of Crown Heights gathered Sunday to mark ...

August 21, 2016

Clinton campaign halfway to $1 billion fundraising goal

Hillary Clinton's campaign is halfway to its goal of raising a billion dollars for the 2016 race, according to her finance ...

August 21, 2016

The Latest: Clinton campaign halfway to big fundraising goal

The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times local): 1:30 p.m. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is halfway ...

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August 19, 2016

Ex-Wahlburgers employees sue, claiming denied wages and tips

Five former employees of the burger chain founded by celebrity brothers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg are suing the company over ...

August 18, 2016

A festival to remember a riot? New York event stirs debate

It was the most searing racial clash in a generation in the nation's biggest city, spiraling out of the deaths of a black ...

August 16, 2016

Police: Suspect in imam's slaying had gun stashed in wall

The suspect in the "assassination" of an imam and his friend after they left a mosque had the murder weapon stashed in the ...