Plus, New York woman shoved to death in front of a Times Square train and Janet Reno, the nation's first female US Attorney General, dead at 78.

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An hours-long standoff with a suspect who threw a hoax bomb into a NYPD police van late Wednesday ended with the man being taken away on a stretcher, The New York Daily News reports. The suspect, identified as 52-year-old Hector Meneses, barricaded himself in a gold Chrysler Aspen SUV near New York City’s Columbus Circle, the news […]

So someone triple-dog dared you to go to New York’s Times Square On New Years Eve. The countdown nexus of The Big Apple may be…

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Lala Vasquez and her son Kiyan were spotted in Times Square filming her new reality show “Lala’s Full Court Life” which documents her move to New York with husband Carmelo Anthony and Kiyan. Take a look: Carmelo Anthony Asks Media To Leave Wife Lala Alone Obamas, Bey & Jay, Nicole & Boris, Lala & Carmelo […]

New York (CNN) — A suspicious package in Times Square prompted an evacuation and raised alarms in a jittery city Friday afternoon until authorities determined it was a false alarm. Investigators determined after an anxious hour or so that the suspicious package — a green cooler — contained only water bottles. The cooler was found […]

From The New York Times Shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, the vendors — Lance Orton and Duane Jackson, who both served during the Vietnam War and now rely on special sidewalk vending privileges for disabled veterans — said they told nearby officers about the Pathfinder, which had begun filling with smoke and then emitted […]