A man accused of stealing power tools from a hardware store died in a holding cell at a Brooklyn courthouse just before his scheduled arraignment on Friday, according to court records and the police. The man, identified as Soso Ramishvili, 32, was being held in police custody at the Kings County Criminal Courts Building in … Read more
The police in Las Cruces, N.M., said they were investigating a shooting at a park that left several people wounded. The Las Cruces Police Department would not confirm the number of injured or killed, but a journalist for The New York Times who was at the scene saw what appeared to be two bodies on … Read more
Printemps, a French department store that just opened its first American outpost in Lower Manhattan, is aiming to do what few stores of its ilk have lately done in that area: stay in business. The store at 1 Wall Street, about a five-minute walk from The New York Stock Exchange, is in a part of … Read more
Varun Kataria wore many hats before he became a nightclub owner. “I took a vow of unemployment at the age of 23,” Mr. Kataria, 41, said. “So I never had, like, a proper job since then.” He once owned a music studio in Minneapolis, where he was born and raised. He has taken travelers on … Read more
The plan was to transform two of New York City’s busiest crossings for cars into “Bridges for the People,” an idea that Bill de Blasio, the mayor at the time, said would help New Yorkers exit “the era of fossil fuels.” He promised to remove one vehicle lane apiece from the Brooklyn and Queensboro Bridges … Read more
Yeshiva University said on Thursday that it would recognize an L.G.B.T.Q. student club on campus, bringing to an end a bitter yearslong legal battle over whether the school could deny the group official recognition on religious grounds. Yeshiva, a Modern Orthodox Jewish institution with campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx, had refused for years to … Read more
Paul Weiss, the New York law firm that this week struck a deal to escape President Trump’s wrath, is one of the nation’s largest, with more than 1,000 lawyers representing some of the world’s wealthiest and most profitable companies. The firm, formally called Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has offices around the world. Its … Read more
For nearly a decade, people with ties to Iran’s government have been accused of plotting to kidnap or murder Masih Alinejad, a journalist and dissident who left the country in 2009 and an impassioned critic of its leaders. On Thursday, a jury in Manhattan returned guilty verdicts in the first criminal case stemming from those … Read more
A New York City man posing as a law enforcement agent promised a woman that he could help her get a green card if she invested $500,000 with him, prosecutors said on Friday. Instead, the man kept the money and never submitted a visa application as he had promised. According to a federal indictment unsealed … Read more
Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey is barred by term limits from running for re-election. The race to replace him has drawn an enormous field of candidates, including two sitting members of Congress, two big-city mayors and a Republican who nearly beat Mr. Murphy three years ago. Candidates on both sides of the aisle … Read more