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The death of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz has sparked an interest in the Law Enforcement Explorers, an NYPD program that shows young people what it is like to be a police officer to which the 15-year-old belonged.

The New York Police Department is investigating allegations that officers didn’t immediately help a Bronx teenager who was fatally stabbed, allegedly by gang members in a case of mistaken identity, two law-enforcement officials said.

At age 24, Paul Philpott had just quit a job and moved back in with his parents. Then he landed a spot in a farming program—and gained a new identity as a community leader.

The U.S. Interior Department has approved more than $33 million in funding to stabilize the Ellis Island Seawall.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants police to issue summonses instead of arresting people for smoking marijuana in public, a move the head of the police department’s sergeants union said would put officers “in positions of conflict.”

A student and a teacher were killed and dozens injured when a school bus carrying fifth-graders on a field trip collided with a dump truck on a New Jersey highway.

New Jersey lawmakers vowed to move quickly to pass a bill to regulate and tax legalized sports betting after the Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting such gambling in many states.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman abruptly resigned Monday night after the New Yorker published an article in which four women alleged he physically abused them.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2017 income fell after set payments from his memoir ended, netting him less for the year than New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to tax returns the two made public Tuesday.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says the state would dismiss an outside overseer who has held wide-ranging powers over Atlantic City’s troubled finances and operations for more than a year.