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NEW YORK (AP) -- A former prosecutor in the Central Park Five case has resigned from at least two nonprofit boards as backlash intensified following the release of the Netflix series ``When They See Us,'' a miniseries that dramatizes the events surrounding the trial. The president of Vassar College...

NEW YORK ( 1010 WINS) — New York City politicians gathered on the High Line park Tuesday morning to open up the Spur, the last section off the original High Line structure to be converted into parkland. The Spur is the widest area of the High Line and has a large public plaza. City Council Speaker...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Friday was arraignment day for an ex-New York City police officer accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill her estranged husband and her current boyfriend's teenage daughter. RELATED: Claus von Bulow, cleared in attempted murder of wife, dies Rockland man accused of...

KEANSBURG, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- A New Jersey man will serve 75 years in prison for sexually assaulting and fatally stabbing his 11-year-old neighbor in 2017. RELATED: Uncle charged with aggravated murder in case of missing 5-year-old Utah girl: Police Rockland man accused of murdering daughter-in-...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police were at the 14th and 23rd Street F train stations investigating reports that someone set off a firecracker on a subway car. The parties responsible were apparently kids who lit the firecrackers in the last car of the train at the 23rd Street station. scenes from #...

EDISON, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- A police officer was injured in a hit-and-run on Thursday morning in Edison. RELATED: 3 teen soccer players struck and killed by out-of-control SUV in Miami Man, 52, dies after being struck by U.S. Post Office truck in Brooklyn Landscaper working at NJ shopping center...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- There are fewer homeless New Yorkers. That's according to a report Thursday, by the Department of Homeless Services. It released results of a federally mandated 'HOPE' street homeless survey conducted in January. RELATED: San Francisco area homeless count increases by double...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police say they've arrested a man wanted for sexually assaulting a teenager on the subway. Kenneth Kou, 28, allegedly rubbed his body against a 15-year-old girl while she slept on a Queens bound 7 train near Junction Boulevard station last Sunday. NYPD Kou, of Albertson,...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A teacher in the Bronx is accused of raping a student. RELATED: Report: WeWork disputes claim that ‘frat boy culture’ led to sex assaults at company events Former Yankees hero John Wetteland indicted on 3 counts of child sex assault NJ woman charged in murder, sex assault of...

PARAMUS, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- A woman held up two New Jersey clothing stores with a butcher knife and tried to escape on a Jitney bus, police say. RELATED: Deadly knife attack on schoolgirls startles Japan Nebraska farmer cuts off trapped leg using pocket knife Home investor finds staircase booby-...