Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy and ex-wife to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was involved in a hit-and-run incident Friday morning while under the influence of drugs, according to the New York State Police.
Police in New York found a family of four dead inside a house in Westchester County Tuesday -- the victims of an apparent murder-suicide.
With a police official saying, "This is not a television show where everything is solved in an hour," New York authorities Tuesday released details, evidence and two composite sketches related to 10 sets of human remains found along a remote stretch of Long Island beach in recent months.
Emergency officials report at least 43 people in 12 states have died as a result of Hurricane Irene.
A commercial tour bus crash Sunday afternoon left two people dead and at least eight injured in upstate New York, authorities tell CNN.
A hoax e-mail circulating nationally appears to carry an attached traffic ticket by New York State troopers, but it is believed to really carry an unknown computer virus, according to state police.
Two small planes collided in the sky over a wooded area of New York state Monday afternoon, killing two people and critically injuring a third, authorities said.
A bone fragment found by divers during an investigation into the discovery of at least eight bodies on Long Island is not from a human, police said Tuesday.
Authorities in New York are investigating whether a 77-year-old Nevada man charged with four murders in California could be responsible for the deaths of three young girls during the 1970s, officials said Thursday.
At least 14 passengers died early Saturday after the driver of their tour bus lost control of the vehicle and struck a pole on Interstate 95 in the Bronx, New York police said.
Emergency crews on Sunday recovered the body of the pilot of a vintage military jet that crashed into the icy waters of the Hudson River near Ulster, New York, the day before, an FAA spokeswoman said.
A wounded passenger in the car driven by a Pace University football player fatally shot by police said Saturday that truth will prevail and his best friend will get justice.
The police chief of a New York City suburb disputed claims Friday that officers left a Pace University student who they shot, and who later died, handcuffed on the ground for up to 20 minutes.
A teenage girl "averted a tragedy" by calling 911 from inside a wildly weaving car to report her mother, who ended up being charged with drunken driving, New York State Police said.
Four days after his car crashed off a New York parkway, a missing New York City man was found seriously injured but alive, according to a police spokesman.
Police confirm they found a man missing for four days after his car crashed off a New York parkway.
Remains found in Pennsylvania have been identified as those of a woman who disappeared in New York in 2008 after leaving a Manhattan nightclub in the company of a convicted sex offender, authorities said Monday.
New York state's top police official announced Wednesday he was quitting, the second acting superintendent to step down in as many weeks.
The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday that left him and another passenger in an upstate New York hospital.
A suspect was in custody and no one was hurt after a gunman held a principal hostage Tuesday at a school in Pine Plains, New York, a spokeswoman for the Dutchess County sheriff's office said.
A school administrator was reportedly being held hostage at a high school in Pine Plains, New York.
The body of a woman who authorities say was impaired by marijuana and alcohol when she caused a deadly head-on collision shows no signs of long-term alcohol use, according to an investigator hired by her family.
The driver responsible for a head-on collision that killed eight people -- including herself and four children -- on the Taconic State Parkway north of New York City last week was drunk and impaired by marijuana, authorities said.
The man suspected of killing 13 people in a shooting massacre at an immigration services center in Binghamton, New York, on Friday had a troubled past that once put him on law enforcement's radar, police say.
Police closed a section of Interstate 90 in eastern New York on Saturday after a gunman opened fire at a state trooper after a traffic stop, authorities said.
Interstate 90 was closed after a man shot at police officers Saturday.
A New York state trooper who was thought to have been shot and killed by an escaped convict this week is now believed to have been killed by friendly fire, authorities announced Friday.
Authorities recovered a body from an upstate New York farmhouse that burned down after police surrounded it in search of a man suspected of killing a state trooper and wounding two others, a state police spokesman said Wednesday.
One of the New York state troopers shot last week during a search for fugitive Ralph "Bucky" Phillips died Sunday, New York State Police Superintendent Wayne Bennett said.
A Greyhound bus overturned Monday evening on Interstate 87 in upstate New York, killing at least five passengers and injuring numerous others, according to Ray Thatcher with Essex County Emergency Services.
A gunman was arrested Sunday after opening fire and wounding at least two people at Hudson Valley Mall in upstate New York, police said.
U.S. and New York authorities said Tuesday they have arrested 20 people on federal charges in a racketeering case against a suspected violent organized crime ring led by Albanian national Alex Rudaj.