A wrong-way driver on the Tappan Zee Bridge slammed into an oncoming vehicle, killing a passenger and sparking a five-car pileup that closed the northbound lanes of the state Thruway for hours, New York state police said Wednesday.
There's been a lot of evidence to sort through, and it's been three months since state Sen. Malcolm Smith and five co-defendants have been in court in the federal bribery case that alleges a plot to buy Smith the Republican line on New York City's mayoral ballot.
Authorities filed criminal charges against a worker whose actions led to a gas explosion that injured seven people at a suburban New York college, the police chief said Wednesday.
Investigators are trying to find the source of the gas that sparked an explosion that badly damaged a building and injured several people on the campus of Nyack College in Rockland County.
It was a frightening attack that sent Iryna Moskalyk into survival mode. This weekend one of her regular customers choked, punched and kicked the liquor store owner for no apparent reason.