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.
As the state Legislature session winds down, the fight to allow ride-hailing companies to operate in New York is focused on setting insurance terms for drivers. Assemblyman John McDonald, D-Cohoes, said Wednesday he thinks the Legislature is close to agreement on the insurance issue but not broader regulation of services like Uber and Lyft.
A city restaurant owner was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison Friday in an arson and insurance fraud case, Schenectady County prosecutors said. Zabeeda Permaul, 55, was convicted by a jury March 11 after a two-week trial of first-degree arson and two insurance fraud charges.
Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry it’ll be difficult to get consumers to dig through their freezers and check for products they may have bought as far back as 2014.
A legal battle over insurance claims may be the last thing to attract the attention of football fans still chewing over draft picks and just what Tom Brady did or didn’t do.
