A driver was playing Pokemon Go Tuesday night when he swerved off an Auburn road and hit a tree, police said. A man, 28, was trying to catch Pokemon on his phone at 10:44 p.m. while driving near 144 Owasco St., said the Auburn Police Department.

General Motors’ 2009 bankruptcy does not shield it from lawsuits over a deadly ignition-switch defect that led to criminal charges against the automaker and prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles in 2014, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

A person was injured in a crash involving an overturned car and two other vehicles that ended up on top of each other on Ebbitts Street near Mill Road in New Dorp.

Beef, chicken, onions, bell peppers, string beans: those are the ingredients that you should find in a two-person frozen meal.

A Syracuse family was displaced Monday morning after a fire apparently started by discarded fireworks caused $100,000 damage to their residence. There were no injuries, Syracuse firefighters said.

One person is dead following a crash in Wayne County on Saturday. According to Macedon Police Chief John Colella, a dislodged barbecue grill came loose from a recreational vehicle, struck a car traveling in the opposite direction, and killed the passenger in the vehicle.

A car slammed into a father and a daughter riding their bicycles on Long Island, killing one of them, then crashed into the front porch of a home, causing the porch to collapse, police say.

A city bus smashed into a firetruck in Queens on Sunday afternoon, seriously injuring two firefighters and 12 civilians, including children, according to witnesses and officials.

Nearly two months after CRF Frozen Foods set off a massive recall of vegetables thought to be contaminated with listeria and linked to at least two deaths and eight illnesses, a second frozen vegetable supplier — National Frozen Food Corp. — has initiated a separate recall over listeria concerns, and many of the recalled products are from the nation’s largest retailers.

One person was killed and 13 people injured in a 10-vehicle crash in the Bloomfield section of Staten Island. The deadly crash occurred around 1:43 p.m. on Sunday at Victory Boulevard and Travis Avenue.

Authorities say a Greece man suffered third-degree burns over 30 percent of his body after a gas can in the trunk of his car ignited at a gas station early Wednesday morning. It happened near the intersection of Portland and Clifford Avenues shortly after midnight.

Two people are dead and two others are injured after a multi-vehicle crash in Nassau County. It happened just before midnight on the southbound side of the Wantagh State Parkway between Hempstead Turnpike and where it meets the Southern State Parkway in Wantagh.

It took a "genius" to pull off this heist: two thieves put on Apple store employee t-shirts and headed past the Genius Bar to the repair room, grabbed what they could and walked out with more than $16,000 worth of iPhones, police said.

A worker for a hot air balloon company was carried aloft holding onto the aircraft’s basket and fell to his death in New York state, police said on Saturday.

Investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire that gutted a home on Woodplot Road Thursday night, fire officials at the scene said Friday morning. The fire at 6 Woodplot Road destroyed the large home in Loudonville.