By JOHN SEEWER and DAVE COLLINS Associated Press
For months, daring bands of thieves linked to South American gangs have been making off with piles of jewelry and cash from the homes of the biggest superstars in sports, targeting the likes of the NFL's Patrick Mahomes and Travis ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A strong storm is expected to bring moderate to heavy snowfall across parts of the Upper Great Lakes on Saturday before intensifying overnight across the Northeast.
The National Weather Service said a storm over the central and southern plains will move northeastward ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — They're at the top of their sport. They run, weave and go airborne. And they went all out for this weekend's championship.
Sorry — no, they're not the Chiefs or the Eagles. They're the agility dogs at the Westminster Kennel Club show, ...
By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Ka'Von Wooden loved trains. The 15-year-old had an encyclopedic knowledge of New York City's subway system and dreamed of becoming a train operator.
Instead, on a December morning in 2022, Ka'Von died after he climbed to the roof of a ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Twenty-two states sued New York on Thursday, contending that a new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover climate change damage is unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, filed in Albany, lists state Attorney General Letitia ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer
The first women's World Cup ski jumping event in the United States is this weekend in Lake Placid, New York.
Women, thanks to fundraising efforts, are expected to make as much money as male counterparts.
Former U.S. national team members Nina Lussi, Lindsey ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press
Democratic attorneys general in several states vowed Thursday to file a lawsuit to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal payment systems containing Americans' sensitive personal information.
Thirteen attorneys general, ...
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Military Academy has disbanded a dozen West Point cadet clubs centered on ethnicity, gender, race and sexuality in response to the Trump administration's push to eliminate diversity programs throughout government.
The famed military academy in New York issued ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats in suburban New York are suing a Republican county executive over his creation of an armed unit of volunteer residents, saying it amounts to an "illegal, taxpayer-funded civilian militia."
Nassau County Democratic lawmakers ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday.
The report issued by the county medical examiner's office last week concludes ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer
Luge's most important weekend of the year got underway Thursday, with the world championships opening on the track in Whistler, Canada, that was used for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
It's a big deal. It's also a big reminder of what's next.
For the ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press
A county in New York City's Long Island suburbs will be teaming up with federal authorities in President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican and Trump ally, announced ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A 29-year-old man pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday for firing a shotgun outside an upstate New York synagogue during the early months of the Israel-Hamas war.
Mufid Fawaz Alkhader was arrested in December 2023 after firing two ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A woman accused of fatally poisoning her boss had her manslaughter conviction overturned Friday. A New York appeals court said improperly obtained evidence from her cell phone was used against her.
Kaitlyn Conley has been serving a 23-year sentence in the 2015 death of ...
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A top U.S. Justice Department official said a county sheriff's office in upstate New York would be investigated "for potential prosecution" because it released a Mexican citizen from jail even though a judge had signed a warrant for the man's arrest.
But Tompkins County ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Claressa Shields chose to fight in her hometown, a once-powerful city that has taken a series of hits, over opportunities to be the headliner on a boxing card in New York, Las Vegas or Detroit.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist and ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press
A New York appeals court on Thursday reversed a ruling from a judge that struck down a state voting rights law designed to protect the political voice of minority groups.
The ruling from the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court in New York City ...
MASSENA, N.Y. (AP) — Six family members, including three children, died after a fast-moving fire swept through a home in northern New York, according to officials.
High winds fueled the fire that struck a single-family home at around 10 p.m. on Monday in Massena, a town near the St. Lawrence ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press
AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — A New York food bank was offered a huge donation of fresh fish this month — but it came with a catch.
LocalCoho, a soon-to-close salmon farm in the small upstate city of Auburn, wanted to give 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) of coho ...
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a key role to help President Donald Trump fulfill his pledge to roll back major environmental regulations, including those ...