NEW YORK — A man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to burning a sleeping woman to death inside a New York City subway train.

Lou Cassara, 61, said chronic leg pain, arthritis and a torn meniscus left him unable to climb a flight of stairs to a second ...

An illegal migrant accused of burning a woman alive while she slept on a New York City subway car pleaded not guilty during ...

The Pacific Palisades fire in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California has destroyed one synagogue and is threatening two others ...

Schenectady will also lose another longtime employee when Anthony Ferrari, the city’s commissioner of finance and ...

A three-decade chapter for the Schenectady Fire Department closed on Tuesday as Fire Chief Donald Mareno performed his last ...

"I see faces weathered by hard times and by good times, and I see a collective desire to serve,'' FDNY Commissioner Robert ...

You’re invited to attend a naming ceremony for the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department headquarters building.

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

The horrible New Year’s attack in New Orleans serves as a stark reminder. Not only of the problems facing America ...

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