Latest New York Headlines
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EEOC Civil Rights Suit Accuses New York Pizzeria of Harassing Transgender Cook
Apr 3 2023 // T C Wheelers, Inc., which operates T.C. Wheelers Bar & Pizzeria in Tonawanda, New York, violated federal law when management and employees harassed an employee because of his gender identity, the Equal Employment...
North Korean Hackers Posed as NY Times, Voice of America Staff
Mar 29 2023 // Suspected North Korean hackers are posing as journalists and trying to gather intelligence about international officials’ approach to nuclear security policy and Kim Jong Un’s government, according to new...
New York Surgeon Gets 36 Months in Jail for Role in $31 Million Trip-and-Fall Scam
Mar 27 2023 // A New York-licensed pain management doctor has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to obtain fraudulent insurance reimbursements and other compensation from fraudulent trip-and-fall...
TikTok, Transit Agencies Face Wrongful Death Suit Over New York Teenager’s Death
Mar 23 2023 // Chinese company ByteDance and its popular social media platform TikTok are facing a wrongful death suit in New York over the 2022 death of a teenager. The suit alleges that TikTok sent thousands of unsolicited suicidal...
Teen Driver in Crash in New York That Killed 5 Children Had No License
Mar 22 2023 // The 16-year-old driver in a crash that killed five young people did not have a driver’s license or permit and may have fallen asleep or become distracted before the SUV veered off a New York highway, officials said...
New York City Targets E-Bike Users With Safety Plan and Lithium Battery Regulations
Mar 22 2023 // New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed several bills into law to further regulate lithium-ion batteries sold in the city and strengthen fire safety related to the batteries used in e-scooters and e-bikes. Adams also...
New York Senate Passes Bill Requiring Insurance Disclosure on Pipeline Projects
Mar 20 2023 // The New York Senate has unanimously approved legislation that requires the disclosure of insurance information on permit applications for the construction of pipelines traversing any freshwater wetlands in the state. The...
Court Order Restricts Sale of ‘Ghost Gun’ Parts in New York
Mar 13 2023 // The New York attorney general has won an order that stops gun companies from selling or distributing unfinished or unserialized gun parts used to assemble untraceable “ghost guns” to New York consumers. U.S....
New York State, City Lawmakers Look to Curb Lithium-Ion Battery Fires
Mar 9 2023 // Lawmakers in Albany and New York City are pushing measures they hope will curb incidents of lithium-ion battery fires, which have risen in the past few years. They include measures requiring that all batteries and chargers...
New York City Launches Parametric Flood Program With Insurance, Tech Firms
Mar 8 2023 // Insurer Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, and the data technology firm ICEYE have teamed up with New York City government agencies to develop a pilot parametric flood recovery assistance...
Show Must Go On for Broadway Theaters’ Covid Loss Claim, Federal Judge Rules
Mar 8 2023 // A New York federal judge has refused to lower the curtain on a Covid-19 business loss claim by the owner of five Broadway theaters because the entertainment insurance policy language is ambiguous as to whether the theater...
1 Dead, 9 Hurt in Stampede at Rap Concert in New York
Mar 8 2023 // Apparently false fears of a shooting at a rap concert in Rochester, New York, sent a crowd surging toward the exits, killing one person and injuring nine others, police said. The injuries at Sunday night’s concert...
NY Fed Says Supply Chain Pressures Normalized in February
Mar 7 2023 // Global supply chains have “returned to normal,” the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Monday, with pressures dropping to the lowest since before the COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into procurement...
New York EMS Workers Settle Suit With City Over Media Interviews
Mar 3 2023 // Four New York City ambulance workers who said they were disciplined for speaking to the media during the harrowing, early months of the COVID-19 pandemic have reached a settlement in their free speech lawsuit against the...
New York City Agrees to $6M Settlement Over Police Response to George Floyd Protests
Mar 2 2023 // About 320 people arrested during a George Floyd protest in the Bronx on June 4, 2020, and who claim the police used excessive force and violated their civil rights, will each receive about $21,500 under a settlement...
Walmart Loses Challenge to OSHA Finding in Injury at New York Warehouse
Feb 28 2023 // Walmart Inc. violated federal workplace safety standards at its warehouse in Johnstown, New York, when it failed to prevent stored merchandise from falling onto – and seriously injuring – an employee in 2017, a federal...
E-Bike Batteries Blamed for 22 New York City Fires, 2 Deaths This Year
Feb 27 2023 // Lithium ion batteries used to power electric bicycles and scooters have already sparked 22 fires that caused 36 injuries and two deaths in New York City this year, four times the number of fires linked to the batteries by...
Former Pitching Coach Sues New York Mets for Age Discrimination
Feb 24 2023 // Phil Regan sued the New York Mets and former general manager Brodie Van Wagenen, alleging age discrimination and wrongful termination when he was moved out as pitching coach after the 2019 season. Regan, a former big...
Pedestrian Killed by New York Police Cruiser in Multivehicle Accident
Feb 22 2023 // A New York City police cruiser struck and killed a 52-year-old woman in a multivehicle accident while responding to an emergency call, police said. The crash happened at about 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Far Rockaway section...
New York Gov. Hochul Vetoes Wrongful Death Damages Bill
Feb 20 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a measure that would have expanded wrongful death benefits after her late bid for amendments was rejected by the sponsors of the bill. In vetoing the Grieving Families Act, Hochul called...
