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Slain British Parliament member memorialized in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Diplomats, United Nation leaders and dozens of others gathered in New York to honor slain British Parliament member Jo Cox, joining thousands of others around the world Wednesday in...
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Sanders says his revolution is ‘just getting started’
NEW YORK (AP) — Bernie Sanders told a roaring crowd of supporters Thursday that his campaign is “just getting started” fighting economic inequality, changing the Democratic Party and bolstering...
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Stonewall Inn dedicated as national monument to gay rights
NEW YORK (AP) — Members of the LGBT community, along with local and federal officials, gathered at New York City’s Stonewall Inn on Monday to dedicate the site as the first national monument to gay...
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Human rights panel to keep women-only hours at public pools
NEW YORK (AP) — Women-only swimming hours will continue at two city pools, accommodating mostly Orthodox Jewish women. Normally such gender discrimination would be banned under New York Human Rights...
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Crane on new bridge topples over onto lanes of old bridge
NEW YORK (AP) — Cars crossing the Tappan Zee bridge north of New York City on Tuesday had to swerve out of the way as a crane boom from an adjacent bridge project crashed down across the key Hudson...
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Too busy for Pokemon? These entrepreneurs will play for you
NEW YORK (AP) — Too busy with your real life to play the hit augmented reality game “Pokemon Go”? For a price, some entrepreneurs will play the game for you. New ads are popping up on Craigslist nearly...
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3 sisters go from homeless shelter to junior track stardom
NEW YORK (AP) — Every morning, three young sisters wake up together with their mom in one bed in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. Every afternoon, they train in a sport that they hope will put them on a...
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A Junior Olympics win, and a surprise, for homeless NYC kids
NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest surprise Monday for 10-year-old Rainn Sheppard, competing at the Junior Olympics in Houston and far from the New York City homeless shelter she shares with her two sisters...
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New Yorkers’ love-hate relationship with A-Rod nears finale
NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez’s tempestuous relationship with New York Yankees fans comes to an end Friday when he plays his last game in pinstripes and he is making his exit without much of the...
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Police grab man climbing Trump Tower in New York City
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who wanted an “audience” with Donald Trump spent three hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large suction cups, climbing as high as the 21st floor...
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Virginia man scales Trump Tower before police grab him
The Trump Tower climber wore a backpack and used a harness and rope stirrups to fasten himself to the side of the 68-story Manhattan skyscraper. He climbed as high as the 21st floor before officers...
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Former refugees look to Election Day with a sense of duty
NEW YORK (AP) — The path to the voting booth hasn’t been easy for Hatoumata Tounkara, but the former West African refugee says she couldn’t have picked a better election to cast her first ballot. As a...
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New York imam shooting suspect arrested on murder charges
NEW YORK (AP) — Police arrested and charged a man with murder late Monday night in the brazen daytime shooting deaths of an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque. Oscar Morel, 35, was...
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Former refugees look to Election Day with a sense of duty
NEW YORK (AP) — The path to the voting booth hasn’t been easy for Hatoumata Tounkara, but the former West African refugee says she couldn’t have picked a better election to cast her first ballot. As a...
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NYC Muslims grapple with surveillance after imam’s killing
NEW YORK (AP) — At an emotional funeral service for a New York City imam and his assistant who were gunned down on a Queens street, one friend of the victims took the microphone and demanded that the...
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You talkin’ to me? English no longer a must for NYC cabbies
NEW YORK (AP) — People who hope to drive New York City’s famous yellow cabs must pass tests on such details as driving rules and where they can pick up passengers. But one test they no longer have to...
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Sister runners have medals, magazine cover but still no home
NEW YORK (AP) — Three sisters whose track and field prowess brought them medals, TV appearances and even a magazine cover are still struggling for something that’s eluded them: a home of their own....
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New Year’s revelers ring in 2017 in Times Square
NEW YORK (AP) — Confetti fell, fireworks boomed and TV cameras rolled as a massive crowd in Times Square said goodbye to a dizzying year dominated by a bitter presidential election and gave a...
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Georgia lawmaker deals cannabis oil in shadows of the law
MACON, Ga. (AP) — Once a month, a cardboard box from Colorado appears at the office of a conservative Christian lawmaker in central Georgia, filled with derivatives of marijuana, to be distributed...
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Georgia losing patience with drug treatment tourists
RINGGOLD, Ga. (AP) — In the northwest corner of Georgia, where cows and crops vastly outnumber people, a small cluster of privately owned treatment centers has sprung up in recent years for heroin and...
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