As a second New Year since Superstorm Sandy approaches, many coastal residents are still waiting for New York, New Jersey and New York City to distribute billions of federal dollars that were intended to go directly to people struggling to …
A New York congresswoman being treated for lung cancer has filed a lawsuit claiming exposure to asbestos as a young woman may have contributed to her disease. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy filed the lawsuit last month in state Supreme Court in …
It probably happens to most drivers. Heading home after an overtime shift and the eyelids flutter. Up all night with a sick baby and you rest your eyes for just a moment on the way to dropping off the kids …
The estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant has filed a $40 million civil rights lawsuit that blames police inaction over prior violence for the man’s stabbing death during a confrontation with a mob of teens who had made a sport of …
A man, his son and a co-worker hired to clean a putrid dry well at a waste transfer station died Monday when the son fell into a space filled with toxic fumes and the other two went to help him, …
Wal-Mart agreed Wednesday to pay nearly $2 million and improve safety at its 92 New York stores as part of a deal with prosecutors that avoids criminal charges in the trampling death of a temporary worker last year. Nassau County …
The smallest category of hurricane would knock out power to more than half of Long Island’s 1.1 million electric customers and it would take up to nine days to fully restore service, New York officials said following a recent mock …
Several civil lawsuits have arisen from allegations of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church, but few have gone to trial. Most were settled out of court. In what victims’ lawyers called a powerful message to the church, a Mineola, …
The United States’ sixth-largest Roman Catholic diocese is headed to trial this week in a $150 million lawsuit accusing church officials of recklessness for employing a youth minister who raped and sodomized teenagers. But despite its familiar scenario of youths …
New York State’s largest provider of homeowners insurance should reconsider its decision to stop writing new policies in the metropolitan area over concerns about hurricane damage, according to Sen. Charles Schumer. “The chances of a Katrina-type hurricane hitting our area …
