A New York Police Department sergeant has been charged with illegally accessing the FBI terrorist watch list.

As cold weather sets in, New York City officials say they are tightening inspection procedures for delivery trucks in a move to prevent consumers from being overcharged for home heating oil this winter.

Federal authorities have charged 16 people in a multimillion dollar mortgage fraud scheme involving overvalued homes on Long Island that also were used in a cocaine smuggling operation.

The Hunter College study, released Wednesday, found that almost 50 percent of children under age 14 did not wear helmets even though the law requires they do. It also found that 27 percent of commercial cyclists, such as messengers and delivery workers, did not wear helmets.

Like it or not you're likely going to pay more next year to ride a bus and or train and in some cases you may be paying more for the privilege of waiting longer.

Some Brooklyn residents are looking for a pied piper to help rid them of rats. A city Health Department web site that tracks rats reveals that Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Brooklyn Heights have more rats than any other neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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Cold temperatures are forecast for New York City, and officials are dispatching emergency teams to keep homeless people from freezing in the streets.

Three people have been shot, two fatally, in a botched robbery at a discount store in Brooklyn, police say.

Hold on to your bags. Police say a serial purse snatcher has attacked at least 11 women in Brooklyn since September.

An arts group and New York City officials are engaged in separate Coney Island projects that could lead to a joint rejuvenation of the historic amusement complex that closed recently.

A nightclub bouncer who is already sentenced to life in prison for two Brooklyn murders says he feared he would die unless he shot four men during a fight outside a Manhattan nightspot.

A year ago, Carmine Carini was celebrating newfound freedom after a New York judge overturned a murder conviction that had put him behind bars for 23 years. Today, he is back in jail, awaiting trial in a string of robberies.

Police are searching for a serial bank robber who has struck 16 times in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.

New York City police say an officer appears to have acted within department guidelines when she killed a man who lunged at her with a wooden folding chair in a church parking lot.

Police say a man who attacked an officer with a folding chair when she caught him trying to break into a car in a New York City church's parking lot has been shot and killed. The shooting happened around 12:45 p.m. at the Coney Island Gospel Assembly church. Photo from Sonia Rincon
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The detective who was first to arrive on the scene of the fatal shooting of a police officer last July took the stand Thursday at the murder trial of the three men accused in his killing.

A surveillance tape showing the final moments of a slain New York City police officer has prompted tears from the victim's family.

A Meals on Wheels worker was fatally shot in Brooklyn Monday.

The highly contagious stomach illness that typically turns up in each fall is circulating in New York City, the Health Department reported Friday. According to the department's surveillance system, visits to the city's emergency departments for vomiting and diarrhea have increased 19% in the past two weeks, to about 400 per day.

New York City Transit wants to catch graffiti artists in the act -- and on camera.