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Ethics Commissioner Quits as Panel Meets Behind Closed Doors

New York's state ethics commission met Tuesday, and spent most of its time in a private session, as a key appointee of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver resigned from the board.The Joint Commission on...

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Lt. Gov. Candidates Face off in First Debate Tonight

The candidates for Lieutenant Governor in New Jersey are holding their first debate tonight. It will be broadcast on News 12 New Jersey at 7pm and streaming live at this link.Republican Governor Chris...

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A Designer Who Shaped Broadway and Freeways

Before Steve Jobs and Apple, there was Norman Bel Geddes.The work of the designer who shaped everything from Broadway shows to cocktail shakers to freeways from the 1920s to the 1940s is now at the...

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Thousands Line Jersey City Streets for Funeral of Fallen Police Officer

Two by two, police officers on motorcycles from Philadelphia, New York State and around New Jersey led thousands of fellow officers in a procession, as they directed the march behind Officer Melvin...

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Poughkeepsie: A City on the Edge

Poughkeepsie, 70 miles north of New York City along the the Hudson River, had a glorious past that included whaling, lots of timber, grist and textile mills. It's where Scrabble was invented. People...

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Panel Looks Farther into Future, Sees Even More Climate Change

The New York City Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists that has been modeling how climate change will affect the New York City region has, for the first time, come out with sea level rise...

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Trafficked to Play, Then Forgotten

In the summer of 2011, Alley Ene would sneak out of the bungalow where he was staying in Jackson, Miss., to buy bread at a local convenience store. The Nigerian would wait until 11 p.m., when he could...

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November Trial Date Set for Ex-NY Assembly Speaker

A November trial date has been set for a jury to hear the corruption case brought against former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.Federal Judge Valerie Caproni set the Nov. 2 trial date...

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Three Stories of New Yorkers Affected by Trump's Latest Travel Restrictions

Raabyaah Althabani and her husband got married last year in a small, private wedding in India. "It was exactly what I wanted it to be," she said.Her husband, who is a journalist, is from Yemen but he...

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