By JOHN MINCHILLO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which resembles that of rotting flesh. "It smells like ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards on Saturday continued efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a frozen Lake Erie for days, officials said. The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel with 17 people on board, got stuck in the ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color. Nassau County reached a settlement Thursday in which the suburban region, located just ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A proposal introduced in the New York Legislature on Thursday could make it a crime for people to wear face masks to harass or threaten someone. The bill would create the crime of "masked harassment" under the state's existing ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera and his wife are accused in a lawsuit of failing to protect a young girl who was sexually abused by an older child during a summer camp trip sponsored by their church. In a lawsuit filed this month, ...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, the attorneys general from several states announced ...
By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Aaron Glenn is joining Ben Johnson on the move to a head coaching position. Glenn agreed to take over the New York Jets on Wednesday, according to a person with knowledge of the decision. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity ...
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks' decision to restrict its restrooms to paying customers has flushed out a wider problem: a patchwork of restroom policies that has left Americans confused and divided over who gets to use the loo and when. Rules about restroom access in ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Students throughout New York state might have to give up their cellphones during school hours starting next fall under a proposal announced Tuesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The plan, which would require legislators' approval, would ...
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly a hundred jurors will pack back into a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday with the possibility that they'll serve on the three-week trial of A$AP Rocky, who is charged with firing a gun at a former friend. Los Angeles ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, citing the death of a cooperating witness against the Democrat who the governor had once chosen to be her ...
By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A bull moose that fell through lake ice in the Adirondack Mountains was saved by New York conservation officials in a laborious cold-water rescue. The moose fell through the ice around 11 a.m. Thursday, about 200 feet (60 meters) from ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Residents across the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine are bracing for dangerously low temperatures as tens of millions of residents along the East Coast contend with a thick blanket of snow — and more snowfall in the ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations announced new actions Friday to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination. The U.N., created in the aftermath of the World War II ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's Democratic mayor, who faces federal bribery charges, is defending his private meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as the Republican prepares to retake the White House on Monday. Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday brushed ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three high-ranking members of the MS-13 street gang have pleaded guilty to their roles in nine killings involving machetes and guns in the New York City suburbs, federal prosecutors said. Kevin Torres pleaded guilty Friday in federal ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built up in response to a surge from the southern border that has been steadily receding in recent ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors and a lawyer for a woman charged with sneaking aboard a New York-to-Paris flight said Wednesday they'll try to work out a plea deal for her. In the meantime, Svetlana Dali pleaded not guilty to a stowaway charge and was ordered held without bail. After her arrest ...
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The son of an inmate who died after a prolonged beating by New York prison guards said in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that his father's attackers "systematically and casually beat him to death" in a correctional system that ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A man who helped lead an MS-13 clique in New York pleaded guilty Tuesday in a federal racketeering case involving seven murders, including the 2016 killings of two high school girls that focused the nation's attention on the ...