6+ hour, 29+ min ago  (542+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani's math projecting a $5.4 billion budget deficit is coming under increased scrutiny " as his fiscal team no-showed the start of spending negotiations with the City Council for the first time in decades Wednesday. The questionable calculations in part…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago  (519+ words) Long Island police have finally ID'd the killer in a shocking, long-unsolved case " and the victim's family is happy to officially clear their father's name after more than 50 years. Local sanitation worker Thomas Generazio, who died of cancer in 2004, was…...

7+ hour, 23+ min ago  (483+ words) A German tourist tried to squeeze a Times Square taco spot for $100,000 " claiming his northern European tongue suffered "nonstop pain" from dangerously spicy salsa " but a judge said "nein" to his lawsuit. Faycal Manz, a self-described spice-intolerant traveler from Schemmerhofen,…...

18+ hour, 57+ min ago  (632+ words) A US senator is demanding answers about billions in taxpayer funds meant to prevent wildfires before the deadly January firestorm that devastated LA County. Florida Sen. Rick Scott urged Vice President J.D. Vance to investigate how federal wildfire prevention funds sent…...

14+ hour, 10+ min ago  (558+ words) The Big Apple needs to reign in its out-of-control spending by more than $6 billion "including massive cuts to a controversial housing voucher program and school funding, the city's fiscal watchdog said. Comptroller Mark Levine said Tuesday that even if Albany…...

1+ day, 31+ min ago  (188+ words) One person was killed and 11 others were injured in a wild, multi-car pile-up in Brooklyn Tuesday evening after a van plowed into an FDNY truck, causing a devastating chain reaction, cops said. The gnarly crash occurred around 6:45 p.m. when an FDNY…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (366+ words) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says the city is going on offense after a chaotic street takeover rattled downtown " promising a surge of police patrols and "zero tolerance" for the lawless spectacles that have plagued parts of the city. Bass…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (381+ words) Anticlimactics be damned, the Sharks of Long Island University put on a show in one of the strangest conference championships, having already clinched an automatic bid in March Madness before winning the NEC championship against the Mercyhurst Lakers 79-70 on Tuesday…...

19+ hour, 33+ min ago  (539+ words) Dozens of student groups on college campuses across California have thrown their support behind the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran " despite Gov. Gavin Newsom blasting the operation as "illegal" and "without justification." "We express our profound gratitude and support for…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (386+ words) A new investigation is adding to the growing mountain of evidence that a network of hundreds of hospices are allegedly ripping off tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers across California. And ground zero for the alleged fraud " a stretch…...