MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y.—Investigators have been digging in the yard at the Long Island home of Rex Heuermann, who was charged earlier this month with killing at least three women and burying their remains on a remote stretch of beach highway. A yellow excavator that had been seen scooping dirt in the backyard Sunday was still…

Over a hundred Orange County residents gathered in the village of Goshen, New York, on July 22 to raise awareness about the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that combines meditative exercises with moral teachings centered on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and…

NEW YORK—In the winter of 2010, shortly after police discovered the remains of his roommate and three other women buried on a remote stretch of Long Island shoreline, Dave Schaller provided detectives with a description of the person he believed to be the killer. More crucially, Mr. Schaller told them about his truck. The man…

The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit in a federal court on Friday against New York’s Central Business District Tolling Program, commonly known as the “congestion pricing scheme.” In a complaint (pdf) filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, the state alleges that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration’s…

New York City has sent 1,511 illegal immigrants to upstate hotels since it began the practice in early May, according to an affidavit filed by the Deputy Chief Staff of the Mayor’s Office, Molly Shaeffer.  Ms. Shaeffer submitted the filing to Orange County Supreme Court on July 20 in response to a county lawsuit seeking to put…

New York City has agreed to pay out $13 million in a settlement with more than 1,300 protesters who were arrested or allegedly being brutalized by police officers while attending 18 different protest events in the city in the summer of 2020. On Thursday, a group of law firms representing the protesters in a federal…

The world has been around for a long time—some say billions of years. But according to experts, we recently saw the hottest day in Earth’s history. In New York, it hit 88 degrees Fahrenheit. The director of climate services at the World Meteorological Organization declared that “We are in uncharted territory.” And experts say that…

The wife of the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has filed for divorce, according to court documents. Asa Ellerup, 59, the wife of Manhattan architect Mr. Heuerman—who police have confirmed is the suspected serial killer in the case—filed for divorce in Suffolk County Supreme Court against her husband of more than 20 years…

New York City will provide adult illegal immigrants seeking asylum in the United States with 60 days’ notice to find alternative housing and move out of the shelters they’d been provided with. If the illegal immigrants can’t find any alternative housing by the end of the 60 days, they must reapply for shelter, according to a…

Former President Donald Trump’s attempt to shift his New York criminal case to federal court has been rejected by a U.S. judge. Trump and his lawyers argued that because Trump was president when he carried out the actions for which he’s been charged, the case should be heard in federal, not New York, court. U.S….