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Cameras are everywhere in Manhattan and they helped lead investigators to a distinctive backpack in Central Park that could be a key piece of physical evidence.

Ms. Russell, who hasn’t missed a performance of her Off Broadway show in nearly 30 years, fills her day with pets, church, teaching and two shows.

New York City school officials want families seeking such services to waive their right to sue the Education Department in exchange for receiving them.

Investigators have begun to piece together the actions of a man they believe killed a health care executive on a city sidewalk early Wednesday morning.

Jurors in the Daniel Penny trial in Manhattan deadlocked on Friday. Next week they will begin deliberating a lesser charge against him in the death last year of Jordan Neely.

Crime scene technicians came to a wooded area where officers were searching for the gunman’s bag and weapon.

After Brian Thompson of UnitedHealthcare was killed in Manhattan, the phones at corporate security firms were “ringing off the hook.”

At the age of 13, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat said she accidentally knocked over a box in a darkened room. A handgun went off, leaving her father dead.

After years of challenging her party from the left, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, announced a bid to join its leadership ranks in Congress.

The Democratic mayor of New York City has embraced President-elect Donald J. Trump lately. He was a registered Republican in the 1990s.