Almost one-in-five New Yorkers who took COVID tests received positive results in the latest batch of daily statewide data, a staggering reflection of the spread of the omicron strain. The

Former Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.), one of the Senate’s longest-serving majority leaders and a Democrat who played a central role in enacting former President Obama’s biggest legislative accomplishments, died Tuesday at 82.  The death

The NFL announced this evening that longtime NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden has died. “We received the sad news that the great John Madden died unexpectedly this morning. He

At least four people are dead, as well as the suspected gunman, after a cross-city shooting spree near Denver late Monday, according to police. The suspect, who has not been

If not for wards full of unvaccinated COVID patients, the Weeks family feels their beloved patriarch might still be alive. Retired Iowa school superintendent Dale Weeks died late last month

A hit-and-run driver mowed down and killed a man who had just stepped out of his pickup truck on a Bronx highway, police said. The victim, 52, was heading south

Two New York City motorists were killed in a chaotic multi-car crash on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Yonkers, authorities said. Adolph Cintron, 57, of Brooklyn, was headed south

One man was fatally shot and another was wounded on a Queens street Monday night, police said. Gunshots rang out at about 8 p.m. on 37th Ave. near 95th St.

When Mayor de Blasio stepped into City Hall in 2014, the number of homeless people living in shelters was climbing, conditions within the New York City Housing Authority’s more than