
PHOTOS: Fast Food Workers Across the Nation Protest for $15/Hour
Fast food workers are striking on Tuesday as they demand $15 an hour, which is allegedly a more livable wage.

Fast food workers are striking on Tuesday as they demand $15 an hour, which is allegedly a more livable wage.

With a bill, retroactive to show an ending date of October 1, the state of Maryland is ending its program to take ballistic fingerprints of firearms through shell casings after 15 years, $5 million spent, and no crimes solved.

In New York, workers with Department of Design and Construction discovered a burial vault filled with skeletons at Washington Square Park.

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On October 30, the New York Times reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) is joining the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence’s push to hold gun sellers liable for the misuse of guns.

A black and grey striped cat was nailed to a tree, crucifixion-style, in Upstate New York. According to Schenectady Police Lt. Mark McCracken, “The cat in its entirety was nailed to the tree. … The deceased cat was processed by one of our crime scene guys and taken to a local vet who’s arranging for a necropsy.”

Republican New York Rep. Richard Hanna’s congressional opponent in his home state said that Hanna is criticizing the House Benghazi Committee in an effort to gain Democratic support when he runs for re-election or to earn a Hillary Clinton administration post if he doesn’t run for re-election.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wants to know if employees of the two largest fantasy football betting sites used privileged information to make money on NFL games.

A Times Square desnuda put a strange new twist on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day when she went panhandling alongside her topless toddler on Monday.

Former tennis star James Blake, once ranked fourth in the world, is calling for the NYPD officer who mistook him for a thief and body-slammed him to the ground to be fired.

Minnesota resident Hanad Mustofe Musse pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring with no fewer than eight individuals to travel to Syria and provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organization ISIS/ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/the Levant) using federal aid funds.

On Tuesday, federal agents raided the Manhattan offices of RentBoy.com as part of a prostitution and money laundering investigation, authorities reported.

UC Irvine began teaching incoming freshman about sexual consent rules on school grounds.

In the wake of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s popularity plunging, friends push former NBA Commissioner David Stern, a munificent donor to the Democratic Party, to run as a 2017 New York City mayoral candidate.

On Monday, New York police officers admitted they released a man suspected of a home invasion too quickly, after a 7-year-old girl who lived in the home told officers the man had raped her.

As his second year begins, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is finding that being mayor is much harder than running for mayor. After a long series of missteps, de Blasio starts year two falling in the polls, out of favor with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, still distrusted by the city’s police department, and accused of giving big-dollar jobs to buddies.

The Staten Island Yankees minor league ball team launched a “blue lives matter day” promotion that has angered some fans because Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of 18-year-old Michael Brown death.

Four people died in a fiery plane crash that occurred in a remote area of New York’s Adirondack Mountains on Friday night, authorities report. FAA officials report that the cause of the crash is unknown and that no distress call

Rapper Busta Rhymes was arrested and charged with assault at a New York City gym Wednesday night after he allegedly threw a protein shake at a gym employees head, reports Rolling Stone.

On August 3, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered an immediate end of “realistic toy gun sales” after finding that some retailers were allegedly selling toy guns lacking a state-required “bright, 1-inch-wide orange stripe ‘down both sides of the barrel and the front end of the barrel.'”

Hillary Clinton did her best to hide from the world the fact that she went to an exclusive New York salon for a $600 haircut last week.

A Western New York man is in federal custody after being charged with attempting to join ISIS in the Middle East, the FBI said Wednesday.

The States of New York and California have no intention of complying with the Iran deal’s requirement that state and local governments lift their own sanctions against the Iranian regime.

Common Core publishing giant Pearson PLC will sell its Financial Times newspaper to focus more sharply on its education businesses.

Anthony Weiner, the New York Congressman who famously resigned after a cascade of personal public relations disasters, is now working as a consultant for a public relations firm, a New York-based company reported this week.