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A New Jersey woman charged with beating her wife to death with a wine chiller has been arrested in Houston – some 1,600 miles away, authorities announced Thursday. Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus, 48, was taken into custody Wednesday as a fugitive from justice in the death of Rebecca Gavilanez-Alectus, 32, who was found dead Sunday in an...

Michelle Traconis — the “other woman” accused in the murder of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos — has broken her silence, on Thursday insisting, “I know nothing.” But Traconis does throw her ex, accused killer Fotis Dulos, under the proverbial bus in her statement, which was published by NBC in New York. “Whether or not Fotis...

When the coronavirus started its deadly rampage against New York City in early March, it was curtains for the city’s entertainment sector.  On March 12, Broadway went dark indefinitely and its storied stages have remained quiet for the longest time since the American Revolutionary War, when they closed for 23 years in 1775. Broadway has...

The woman was left in a vegetative state after the vicious attacker grabbed her as she was walking on E. 111th Street near 2nd Avenue just before 11:30 p.m. Monday.

Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko -- who promoted the use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, combined with azithromycin and zinc sulfate -- practiced in Monroe, near the Hasidic enclave of Kiryas Joel, according to reports.

Make way for orphaned ducklings! A quintet of motherless baby Mallards is safe and sound after a four-hour wild duckling chase in Central Park. “It’s very amazing!” cheered second-grader Poppy Fox, 7 — one of 30 onlookers watching the dramatic rescue on Thursday. “In kindergarten I studied all about ducklings,” she said as the ducklings...

This Memorial Day, fun on the beach comes with a boatload of rules. New Yorkers clamoring for shorelines to reopen amid the coronavirus crisis were disappointed when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that swimming will be forbidden at beaches within city limits over the holiday weekend. Long Island pols then enacted a ban on non-residents...

CVS is opening 36 new drive-thru COVID-19 test sites in New York as part of a nationwide response to the coronavirus pandemic. New Yorkers can schedule an appointment beginning Friday to find their nearest testing site location in Nassau County, Suffolk County, Staten Island, or Inwood. Each site is expected to be able to perform...

Gomez, 44, an MTA bus driver who was off-duty at the time, knocked on the door of a fifth-floor apartment on St. Nicholas Terrace near West 127th Street.

The defiant New Jersey gym that reopened this week in violation of Gov. Phil Murphy's lockdown was shuttered Thursday by the state.