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Apparently Anger Management hasn't helped Kevin Parker at all. This is the guy that wants byour social media passwords to renew your pistol permit. The closed-door meeting of the State Senate Democrats began with a discussion about social media use. But it quickly devolved into a shouting...

Authorities in Brooklyn have busted a gun-running ring that trafficked 35 legally purchased out-of-state firearms — including a machine gun — into the Big Apple. “These are killing machines,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Wednesday while holding up what he called a “fully...

An effort to impose tougher drunken driving restrictions in New York is generating opposition from a national trade association representing restaurant chains and retailers. The legislation from Democratic lawmakers would lower the legal blood-alcohol limit for driving while intoxicated from...

A good Samaritan was killed at a Florida Waffle House during an "altercation" that was allegedly sparked by his own good deeds. Craig Brewer, 41, was fatally shot in the head around 3 a.m. on Sunday after picking up the tabs of several customers at the restaurant's Gainesville, Fla., location...

New York has pumped millions of dollars into flashy new projects. Most haven’t paid off. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made it his business to funnel cash to upstate initiatives that promise the return of good jobs in once-booming cities. Some of these projects have turned out better than others...

The conservative takeover of the Supreme Court that was anticipated following President Donald Trump's two selections has been stalled by a budding bromance between the senior and junior justices. Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's newest member, Brett Kavanaugh, have voted in tandem on...

Gunfire erupted after two men kicked in the front door of a Long Island home overnight, Suffolk Police said. According to police, two men kicked in the door of a home on Horizon View Drive in Farmingville around 2:10 a.m. They displayed a gun and demanded drugs and money from the homeowner...

New York has hired 19 attorneys to provide full-time legal assistance at no cost to immigrants in every region across the state in conjunction with the Office for New Americans, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. Those attorneys, who were not named in the announcement from Cuomo, will each...

Cops: Pals Took Turns Shooting Each Other

Oregon lawmakers have scheduled about four hours of public hearings on Tuesday to tackle what’s shaping up to be this year’s principal gun legislation.In the morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee will take testimony on a 44-page proposal that would, among other things, penalize some gun owners...

St. Lawrence County legislators voted 11-4 Monday night to file a legal brief supporting a case pending in U.S. Supreme Court filed by a gun rights group against New York City. The vote followed a fairly lengthy debate among legislators, with supporters arguing the case is relevant to St...

Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams disagrees so much with a gun bill making its way through the Colorado legislature that he's willing to go to jail rather than enforce it. "It's a matter of doing what's right," he said. He's not the only one who feels so strongly. The controversial "red flag" bill...

If you rent a car in Upstate New York, you’ll have to pay one more surcharge on top of existing taxes and fees charged at the rental counter. A budget deal reached by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature includes a new 6 percent surcharge on any car rental in Upstate New York. The state...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday he’s planning to run for a fourth term — just months after cruising to re-election to his third term. During an interview on Albany’s WCNY radio, the governor was asked whether he was planning to run for president since he held a fundraiser a couple of weeks ago...

The NYPD says video captured 10 people hunting down and killing a man in Brooklyn earlier this month. It happened at 5:15 p.m. on March 19 near New Lots Avenue on Cleveland and Elton Streets in East New York. “You are literally going to see a 21-year-old male fighting for his life running on...

A loaded handgun was found in a student's backpack at a Long Island elementary school, a law enforcement source says. A school employee found the gun in the backpack at Meadow Elementary School in Baldwin on Monday after noticing that it seemed heavy, according to the law enforcement source...

A man threw a suitcase with an AR-15 sticking out of it at a police officer after the officer noticed him rolling it down the sidewalk in Brooklyn, prosecutors say. Two NYPD officers responding to a 911 call reporting a man with a gun near Halsey Street and Marcy Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant...

More than a decade after Wall Street's crash wrecked the global economy, House Democrats are threatening to stigmatize the nation's biggest banks again. Progressive freshmen like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) are joining with veteran lawmakers to try to...

Andrew Gillum announced a plan Wednesday to register and turn-out 1 million new and low-propensity Florida voters in an effort to crush President Donald Trump’s reelection chances in the nation’s largest swing state. “Voter registration is red flag No. 1,” the former Tallahassee mayor told...

A Yonkers attorney was arrested Wednesday for shooting her hubby in the gut, authorities said. Police say Sloane Fleckman-Finn, 44, called them at 5:03 a.m. to say she’d just blasted her husband, Eric Finn, once in the stomach. Cops showed up to find Finn lying bloodied on the living room...

A shooting on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday left “multiple” people wounded, police said, adding that they are considering the possibility of a “terrorist motive.” A manhunt was launched for the shooter. Police, including heavily armed officers, flooded the area after the...

Imagine going to a movie and being asked to stand for the national anthem when the previews finish. Being at a concert and the opening act not taking the stage until after the last notes of "The Star-Spangled Banner" have faded. Trying to corral kids at an arcade birthday party while the anthem...

Andrew Cuomo for president?! Four more years as governor?! Gov. Cuomo held a swanky, hush-hush fundraiser at the posh St. Regis hotel in midtown Thursday night — while in the midst of negotiations with state lawmakers to adopt a $173 billion budget by April 1. And wouldn’t you know? Donors...

Last December, the Twitter account for the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) set off a full-fledged media furor. The tweet in question set out to enumerate the linguistic sins of “speciesism”—the practice of discriminating against living things based on their...

A bill that would place new taxes on wine and beer sales would raise $260 million meant for addiction prevention and recovery programs. That bill, backed by Assemblyman Michael DenDekker, would add 3 cents to the price of a 12 ounce can of beer and 2 cents per glass of wine. Ten cents would be...

As such, Cuomo’s plan amounts to a tax on pain. It’s a tax on cancer patients, hospice patients and others suffering from legitimate chronic pain for which only prescription medication can provide relief. In contrast, distributors have good options for avoiding the tax, namely selling more to...