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  • A burning construction crane is seen atop a high rise near Manhattan's Hudson YardsFinance

    Crane collapse in Manhattan: Owner and operator linked to previous disasters

    By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press
  • Construction craneLifestyle

    Flaming construction crane plummets to midtown Manhattan sidewalk, sending people running for their lives: ‘I never seen anything like that’

    By Jake Offenhartz, Karen Matthews, and others
  • George Floyd protestsPolitics

    You could get $9,950 for getting beaten up by NYPD officers at 2020 George Floyd protests under historic class action

    By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press
  • FILE – People participate in a Caribbean-led Black Lives Matter rally on June 14, 2020, at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza in New York. On Wednesday, July 19, 2023, New York City agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willen, File)Finance

    New York City will pay $13 million to over 1,300 racial injustice activists arrested or beaten in 2020 protests

    By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press
  • Rex HeuermannLifestyle

    DNA from a pizza crust in a Manhattan trash can link a Long Island architect to 3 out of 11 grisly serial killings stretching back over a decade

    By Jake Offenhartz, Michael R. Sisak, and others
  • FILE – A child holds a PRIME hydration drink prior to a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks, March 31, 2023, in Los Angeles. An influencer-backed energy drink that has earned viral popularity among children is facing scrutiny from federal lawmakers and health experts over its potentially dangerous levels of caffeine. Senator Chuck Schumer on Sunday, July 9, 2023 called on the Food and Drug Administration to investigate Prime. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file)Health

    YouTube star Logan Paul’s energy drink has way too much caffeine for the kids it ‘so feverishly targets,’ says lawmaker asking for FDA probe

    By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press
  • Richard RavitchSuccess

    Richard Ravitch, lifelong New Yorker who tackled ’70s fiscal crisis and ’80s subway insolvency, dies at a Manhattan hospital at 89

    By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press
  • Bill de BlasioPolitics

    NYC orders former Mayor Bill de Blasio to pay back $475,000 for using a police security detail on his failed presidential bid

    By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press
  • Washington Square ParkPolitics

    The man who choked Jordan Neely to death on the NYC subway has turned himself in

    By Jake Offenhartz, Michael R. Sisak, and others
  • George SantosPolitics

    George Santos pleads not guilty to litany of charges including unemployment fraud, money laundering, lying to Congress

    By Jake Offenhartz, Michael R. Sisak, and others
  • FILE – Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., waits for the start of a session in the House chamber as the House meets for the fourth day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. Santos has been arrested on federal criminal charges. The Republican congressman has faced outrage over revelations he fabricated parts of his life story, including lying about being a wealthy Wall Street dealmaker. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Politics

    Congressman George Santos has been arrested for and charged as prosecutors allege ‘fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations’

    By Michael Balsamo, Jake Offenhartz, and others
  • Representative George Santos, a Republican from New York, speaks to members of the media outside criminal court in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Donald Trump, the first former US president to be indicted, will plead not guilty when he appears in a Manhattan state court Tuesday to face criminal charges, his defense lawyer said. Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Rep. George Santos has been indicted on federal charges after facing mockery and anger over his serial lying

    By Michael Balsamo, Farnoush Amiri, and others
  • NYC subway chokingPolitics

    The Marine who choked a homeless man to death on the NYC subway could face the same exact charges Bernie Goetz cleared in the ’80s

    By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press
  • Subway restraint deathPolitics

    NYC simmers with outrage after fatal subway chokehold ruled a homicide by medical examiner’s office

    By Jake Offenhartz, Bobby Caina Calvan, and others
  • MISSION, TEXAS – DECEMBER 11: A construction crew works on a section of privately built border wall on December 11, 2019 near Mission, Texas. The hardline immigration group We Build The Wall is funding the construction of the wall on private land along a stretch of the Rio Grande, which forms the border with Mexico. The group, led by former Trump strategist Stephen Bannon claims to have raised tens of millions of dollars in a GoFundMe drive to build sections of wall along several stretches of the southwest border with Mexico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)Politics

    We Build The Wall founder who stole hundreds of thousands from donors after promising ‘not to take a penny’ is sentenced to prison

    By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press