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NEW YORK (AP) — As superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's largest city unusually vacant and dark. New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the city and Long Island. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II New York Police o...
NEW YORK — A laid-off women's accessories designer shot a former coworker to death in front of the Empire State Building, causing a chaotic showdown with police Friday in front of one of the world's best-known landmarks. Police killed the suspect and at least nine others were wounded, some possibly by police gunfire, city officials said. Some of the wounded were grazed by bullets and others hit directly, but all were expected to survive, officials said. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan Rebecca Cox talks to media while recounting w...
NEW YORK — A laid-off worker fatally shot an executive at his former company outside the Empire State Building on Friday, setting off a chaotic showdown with police in front of one of the world's best-known landmarks. Officers killed the gunman and at least nine others were wounded, some by stray police gunfire, authorities said. The gunshots rang out on the Fifth Avenue side of the building at around 9 a.m., when pedestrians on their way to work packed sidewalks and merchants were opening their shops. AP Photo/AP video In t...
NEW YORK — In a potential break in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, a former convenience-store employee has told police that he suffocated 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 and left the boy's body in a box in an alley, law enforcement officials said Thursday. If Pedro Hernandez's story checks out, it could solve the 33-year-old mystery of what happened to Etan, whose disappearance on his way to school helped give rise to the nation's missing-children movement and made him one of the first abducted y...
NEW YORK (AP) — The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicked off in New York on Thursday, putting a festive mood in the air in a city still coping with the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. The young, and the young at heart, were delighted by the sight and sound of marching bands, performers and, of course, the giant balloons. The sunny weather quickly surpassed 50 degrees. Some parade-goers had camped out to get a good spot, staying snug in sleeping bags. Others came well-prepared with folding chairs. Alan Batt and his 11-y...
NEW YORK — A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said. Before trying to carry out the alleged terrorism plot, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis went to a warehouse to help assemble a 1,000-pound bomb using inert material, according to a criminal complaint. He also asked an undercover agent to videotape him saying, "We will not stop until we a...
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors took a shot at the nation's largest and arguably most powerful law enforcement union Friday, slapping criminal charges on 13 members after a lengthy probe into the longtime but under-the-table practice of making parking tickets disappear for friends and family. The charges against the New York Police Department officers, two sergeants and a lieutenant were announced just three days after the embarrassing arrests of five police officers in a separate gun-running sting. AP Photo/David Karp Police o...
AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, right, and U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Preet Bharara confer at a news conference on Thursday in New York. Law enforcement officials said more than 120 organized crime associates face charges including murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking in one of the largest Mafia crackdowns in FBI history. TOM HAYS,Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia takedowns in FBI history Thursday, charging 127 s...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, right, and U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Preet Bharara confer at a news conference on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011, in New York. Law enforcement officials said more than 120 organized crime associates face charges including murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking in one of the largest Mafia crackdowns in FBI history. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) More than 120 busted in Northeast Mafia crackdown TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK — Federal authorities orchestrated one of the b...
AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, right, and U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District Preet Bharara confer at a news conference on Thursday in New York. Law enforcement officials said more than 120 organized crime associates face charges including murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking in one of the largest Mafia crackdowns in FBI history. More than 120 busted in Northeast Mafia crackdown TOM HAYS,Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia t...
Emergency personnel work at the scene where thirteen people died when a bus returning to New York City from a casino on Saturday overturned on a highway and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. AP Photo/David Karp Officials: 13 dead in NYC casino bus accident JIM FITZGERALD TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK — Thirteen people died Saturday when a bus returning to New York City from a casino overturned on a highway and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. The driver, who survived, t...
Emergency personnel work at the scene where thirteen people died when a bus returning to New York City from a casino on Saturday overturned on a highway and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. AP Photo/David Karp Officials: 13 dead in NYC casino bus accident JIM FITZGERALD TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK — Thirteen people died Saturday when a bus returning to New York City from a casino overturned on a highway and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. The driver, who survived, t...
Emergency personnel work at the scene where thirteen people died when a bus returning to New York City from a casino on Saturday overturned on a highway and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. AP Photo/David Karp Officials: 13 dead in NYC casino bus accident JIM FITZGERALD TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK — Thirteen people died Saturday when a bus returning to New York City from a casino overturned on a highway and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign. The driver, who survived, t...
NEW YORK — Prosecutors have serious questions about the credibility of a hotel housekeeper who has accused former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, and he is expected to have his strict bail conditions reduced today, according to people familiar with the case. Investigators have come to believe that the woman lied about some of her activities in the hours around the alleged attack and about her own background, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday. The o...
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has agreed to free former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn without bail or home confinement in the sexual assault case against him. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives at New York Supreme Court with his wife Anne Sinclair, Friday. Prosecutors have serious questions about the credibility of a hotel housekeeper who has accused Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, and he is expected to have his strict bail conditions reduced F...
They sometimes worked in pairs and pretended to be married so they could blend in as the couple next door while working as spies in a throwback to the Cold War, complete with fake identities, invisible ink, coded radio transmissions and encrypted data to avoid detection, authorities say. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz, speaking Monday in federal court in Manhattan, called the allegations against 10 people living in the Northeast "the tip of the iceberg" of a conspiracy of Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, to c...
Times Square bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks LARRY NEUMEISTER TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims. "Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun," 31-year-old Faisal Shahzad told a federal judge. "Consider me the first droplet of the blood that will follow." His p...
Within hours of his capture, U.S. prosecutors say, Russian spy suspect Juan Lazaro admitted his name was an alias. So who is he? Lazaro wasn't saying — not "even for his son," court papers say. Lazaro's admission — and defiance — was revealed Thursday by federal prosecutors arguing against bail for him, his wife and another couple with children. The U.S. government claims those defendants and seven others were part of a spy ring on assignment to infiltrate America's cities and suburbs for the Russian intelligence servi...
