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Mayor Bill de Blasio and primary opponent agree Staten Island shouldn't get a new jail.

An ex-convict facing prison time for gun possession stemming from a shooting incident involving his girlfriend, pleaded guilty to assault in an unrelated case.

Volunteers are needed on Wednesday at noon at Mount Loretto.

The Brooklyn man accused of stabbing his girlfriend and two of her young children to death last year in a Willowbrook hotel could go to trial as early as next month.

A man whose body was found on the beach at Fort Wadsworth jumped to his death from the Staten Island Ferry, police confirmed.

A dispute over sneakers led to a shooting of a man in front of a laundromat in Port Richmond, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

A New Jersey man, now in his early 60s, was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl on Staten Island.

Created to bolster tourism in South Dakota, Mount Rushmore famously features the faces of American presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt.

The administration is giving Congress six months to come up with a legislative fix.

The center said there was a growing possibility that the storm's effects could be felt in Florida later this week, though it was still too early to be sure of its future track.