KEY WEST, Fla. — Nearly 1,400 migrants from Cuba and Haiti took to the sea in rickety vessels and landed in the Florida Keys in January, overwhelming the local police. “We experienced chaos, a lack of a plan and a federal problem which became a local problem,” said the Monroe County sheriff, Rick Ramsay. Gov. […]
Good morning. Today we’ll find out about a new designation that recognizes how much cleaner the waterways around New York City are than they once were. We’ll also get details on an appeals court ruling that temporarily blocked questioning of a former prosecutor about the investigation of former President Donald Trump. “We’re going to have […]
Megan McDonald’s body was discovered near a dirt path on the outskirts of Middletown, N.Y., on March 15, 2003. The cause of death, blunt force trauma, was obvious immediately. The search for her killer would last 20 years, one month, and four days. On Wednesday, Edward Holley, 42, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder […]
Lamont Jackson’s duties as a customer service associate at New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection included helping people who called to inquire about their water usage. Twice last year, officials said on Thursday, he did the opposite. Anyone who thinks they have had a bad customer service experience might want to weigh it against […]
A Missouri man who lured a teenager into a wooded area and shot him eight times because of his sexual orientation, causing serious and lingering injuries, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison, the Justice Department said. The man, Malachi Robinson, 25, of Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty last summer to a […]
Bud Shuster, a former longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who was crowned the “king of asphalt” because he funneled billions of dollars in gasoline tax revenue to his Appalachian district for highway construction, died on Wednesday at his farm in Everett, Pa. He was 91. His death, from complications of a hip fracture two weeks […]
While driving south of Fresno recently, I passed through the city of Selma, which proudly proclaims itself to be the world’s raisin capital, its emblem a plump bunch of purple grapes on a globe. Nearby is the world’s largest box of raisins, a roadside tourist attraction, and a community quite literally named Raisin City. I […]
The News Nearly three weeks have passed since the April 1 deadline for a state budget, and leaders in Albany still seem to have a ways to go. Each year, New York’s spending is negotiated behind closed doors by the governor, Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker. And while all three are Democrats, that does […]
As New York City was inundated with asylum seekers bused from the border last year, Mayor Eric Adams cast blame on the Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and Florida. But when the cost to feed and house the migrants quickly escalated, Mr. Adams shifted his ire to the federal government, pressing for more emergency aid, […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Andrew D. Lester, the 84-year-old man charged in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old high school student, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a brief appearance in a county courthouse in Missouri. Mr. Lester, who entered the small courtroom in Liberty, Mo., through a side entrance, approached the judge slowly […]