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The National Park Service has a longstanding warning against swimming or wading in Rock Creek due to “high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens.”

New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a federal judge found the city had failed to stem spiraling dysfunction and brutality against those in custody. Instead, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain said she would appoint an outside manager to “take all necessary steps” t...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka briefly returned Tuesday to the gates of the federal immigration detention center where he was arrested last week on trespassing charges. Baraka, a Democrat running for governor in the June 10 primary, was turned away from Delaney Hall, the facility where he was arrested Friday. He departed and stayed about a half ...

With the jury finally selected, the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs got underway in Manhattan federal court on Monday. The eight men and four women chosen did not wait long to see what is considered to be a key piece of evidence in the prosecution’s arsenal against Combs: a security video showing him a...

The Knicks are one win away from a trip to the Eastern Conference finals leading the Celtics 3-1 in the conference semis, which now shifts back to Boston for a pivotal game 5. The Celtics will try to keep their hopes for a repeat championship alive after losing Jayson Tatum to a ruptured Achilles. The superstar had surgery on Tuesday,…...

A 70-year-old woman is recovering after being assaulted in an unprovoked attack in a Midtown East subway passageway, the NYPD said. The woman was walking in an underground passageway to the no. 6 train near Lexington Avenue and East 53rd Street when an unknown man pushed her a wall causing her to hit her head and fall to the ground,…

New York Yankees third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left ankle fracture ahead of Tuesday night’s game against the Seattle Mariners. In a corresponding move, infielder DJ LeMahieu completed his rehab assignment and was reinstated from the 10-day injured list. In the ninth inning of New York’s 11-5 victory over...

A scheme that saw a small New Jersey deli’s holding company valued at $100 million blew up after a hedge fund manager made fun of it in a client letter.

A man who was accused of killing and dismembering his roommate in Groton and leaving part of her body in a suitcase near a cemetery by their apartment has died. Donald Coffel, 68, of Groton, died on Friday at the Corrigan Correctional Center, according to the Connecticut Department of Correction. They said his death is not considered suspicious and...

NJ Transit and an engineers’ union appear to be steaming ahead to the first major rail strike in decades starting early Friday, even as both sides convene in Washington, D.C., where they pledged to continue negotiations. Representatives for NJ Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers were called to the capital by federal arbitrator...

President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey’s GOP primary, saying he’s gone “ALL IN” on the “Make America Great Again” agenda. Trump’s endorsement came Monday in a Truth Social post and gives Ciattarelli’s campaign a boost as he competes against two other Trump supporters and a state senator who...

The Oswaldo Cabrera leg injury came as he made an awkward slide to score the Yankees’ final run against the Mariners last night.

Former President Barack Obama is coming to Connecticut. He will join The Connecticut Forum in June.  It is in partnership with the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Former President Obama will talk about his presidency, his current work with the Obama Foundation and the challenges we face today. “For more than three decades, The Forum has...