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Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk again, a day after being stabbed. Mr Rushdie, 75, was attacked while speaking at an event in New York state and was in a critical condition. He has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some […]
New York state health officials have found indications of additional cases of polio virus in wastewater samples from two different counties, leading them to warn that hundreds of people may be infected with the potentially serious virus. Just two weeks ago, the New York Health Department reported the nation’s first case of polio in almost […]
A 23-year-old man is in critical condition after police say he was shot on the job at a McDonald’s in Brooklyn. The shooting happened at around 7 pm on Monday outside the restaurant on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Reports say that it started when a customer was angry her fries were cold, approached the worker […]
A woman died after she was attacked by a family dog on Long Island on Wednesday. Authorities said the attack happened on Terrace Court in Albertson around 1:15pm. Police said a 70-year-old woman was discovered by her 66-year-old husband, mauled, mutilated and being dragged through the backyard of their home by the family pit bull. […]
A flashy Brooklyn pastor known for wearing designer outfits and extravagant jewelry was robbed along with his wife of more than $1 million while he was preaching at church Sunday, police said. Police say three males entered the Leaders of Tomorrow church Sunday with firearms and removed the jewelry pastor Lamor Miller-Whitehead, who goes by […]
Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife, died of “blunt impact injuries” to the torso, the New York City medical examiner’s office has said. It added that the death of the 73-year-old on Thursday was accidental. Reports in US media say she died after falling down stairs in her New York City apartment. Ivana Trump, who […]
The average monthly rent for a Manhattan apartment surpassed $5,000 for the first time — and brokers say demand and prices are headed even higher into the fall. The average apartment rent in June was $5,058, the highest on record. Average rental prices were up 29% over last year, while median rent was up by […]
The FBI on Thursday added Dr. Ruja Ignatova, the self-proclaimed ‘Cryptoqueen,’ to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives, and is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to her arrest. Ignatova, the founder of a cryptocurrency called OneCoin that was launched in 2014, allegedly defrauded investors of more than $4 billion over three years, […]
A 57-year-old woman was hit in the head with a hammer several times and robbed in one of the latest violent crimes in a New York subway station, police said. Police are searching for a suspect who kicked the woman and struck her “numerous times” and fled on foot with her purse, New York Police […]
A young girl who went missing in 2019 has been found alive in a secret room under a staircase, police in the US state of New York say. Paislee Shultis, now six, was discovered in a house in the town of Saugerties after a search on Monday. She is in good health and has now […]
Prince Andrew has settled a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by Virginia Giuffre. Ms Giuffre had been suing the Duke of York, claiming he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17, allegations he has repeatedly denied. A letter filed to the US district court on Tuesday said […]
An auto body shop in suburban New Jersey found human remains in a car’s grill and undercarriage on Monday, which investigators say came from a fatal pedestrian-involved multicar crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in December. The Goodyear Auto shop in Linden, a town just west of New York City’s Staten Island borough, declined to […]