‘One of my nightmares’: Pipe bomb attack hits in NYC subway
A would-be suicide bomber inspired by Islamic State extremists strapped on a crude pipe bomb, slipped unnoticed into the nation’s busiest subway system and set the device off at rush hour Monday in a scenario that New York has dreaded for years, authorities said.
Security tight for Thanksgiving parade in terror-wary NYC
Sand-filled sanitation trucks and police sharpshooters will mix with glittering floats and giant balloons at a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that comes in a year of terrible mass shootings and not even a month after a deadly truck attack in lower Manhattan.
Trump’s tweets seen as unlikely to slow New York terror case
President Donald Trump’s tweets calling for the death penalty for the man charged in the New York truck rampage could give defense attorneys grounds to argue that Trump has poisoned the minds of potential jurors.
No plans for future Miss. picnics in NYC, group says
Organizers say they are not planning to continue the annual picnic that brought Mississippi catfish and blues to New York.
Mississippi picnic in NYC canceled over HB 1523
An annual New York City picnic celebrating Mississippi food and culture is canceled because of Mississippi’s adoption of a contested religious-objections bill.
Times Square on New Year’s to be ‘safest place in the world’
With the nation still jittery over shooting massacres in California and Paris, New York City officials sought to assure revelers Tuesday that the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be the safest place in the world — heavily secured by thousands of New York Police Department officers, including a new specialized counterterrorism unit.
N.Y. Police boss: Less rhetoric, more dialogue needed
A day after the funeral of one of two police officers gunned down in their patrol car, the city’s police commissioner called Sunday for a “lot less rhetoric and a lot more dialogue” to defuse the tension between police officers and the population they protect.
NYC officer mourned at funeral as tensions linger
Thousands of police officers from across the nation packed a church and spilled onto streets Saturday to honor Officer Rafael Ramos.
Police on alert after NYC cop killings
Police departments around the country are on alert after a man ambushed two officers and shot them to death inside their patrol car Saturday.
Columbus native checks NYC Marathon off her list
Columbus High School alumna Lashonda McLeod is a diplomat, currently representing the United States in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
NYC police commissioner: Hatchet attack was terror
A brazen daylight hatchet attack against a group of police officers on a busy New York street was a terrorist act by a reclusive Muslim convert.
After 1st Ebola case in NYC, 3 others quarantined
A doctor who became New York City’s first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms.
NYC artist explores women’s habits, identities in MSU exhibit
Works of a visiting New York City artist are on display through Nov. 7 at Mississippi State’s Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery.
Horses’ future uncertain if New York City carriage rides end
Time may be running out for the iconic horse carriages that carry tourists around New York City’s Central Park. Mayor Bill de Blasio has already declared his intention to shut down the industry, saying it is inhumane to keep horses in modern-day Manhattan.
Probe seeks cause of NYC train crash that killed 4
Federal authorities today were beginning an exhaustive investigation into what caused a New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve to derail, killing four people and injuring more than 60 others.
White mayor, black wife: NYC shatters an image
Another milestone is passing in America’s racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife. Even in
Village north of NYC has deal for the right chef
CATSKILL, N.Y. — Locals looking to land a buzz-worthy, foodie-friendly restaurant in this Hudson River village are offering the right chef a novel deal: Come
Mayoral hopeful: Don’t stop trains for kittens
NEW YORK — A former chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority and New York City mayoral hopeful says he wouldn’t have stopped the subway because
NYC museum exhibit shows virtues of living small
NEW YORK — Many New Yorkers live in small apartments, yet most of them don’t camp out in a micro-unit at a museum in order
NYC mayor lambastes stop-and-frisk ruling
NEW YORK — A federal judge’s stinging rebuke of the police department’s stop-and-frisk policy as discriminatory could usher in a return to the days of