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Truck Driver Charged With DWI in Deadly Limo Crash: Prosecutor

The driver of a truck that struck a limousine, killing four women passengers in their 20s, was arraigned Sunday at his hospital bed on a charge of driving while intoxicated, authorities said. (Published Sunday, Jul 19, 2015). Updated 3 hours ago. The ... >> view original

Express Bus Service Shows Promise in New York

New Yorkers living outside Manhattan have the longest average public transit commutes in urban America. New York City buses, express routes aside, are the slowest in the country. Three-quarters of a million New Yorkers now take more than an hour to ... >> view original

Mourners Make First Visit to New York's Potter's Field

The lonely island where New York City buries its unclaimed dead lies off the coast of the Bronx, off-limits to living mourners for so long that it has sometimes seemed like a mirage. For years, family members and their advocates battled the city for ... >> view original

The 8 best ethnic neighborhoods in New York City

Flickr/Martin SolliNew York's Chinatown is one of the largest and oldest Chinatowns in the world. New York isn't known as a melting pot for nothing. It's one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, boasting dozens of under the radar ethnic ... >> view original

Six Killed in New York City Over the Weekend

The victims were near home or on their way back. In one case, a man was walking with his stepsister to the subway station; in another, a man was with friends outside his apartment. From Friday night to Sunday morning, six people were killed in New York ... >> view original

Hot and Steamy: Heat Advisory Continues After NYC Sees Hottest Day of the Year

The stifling heat will continue through Monday following New York City's hottest day of the year, Storm Team 4 says. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory that will be in effect until 6 p.m. ... >> view original

A Wizard at Prying Government Secrets From the Government

Since the Obama administration has overseen a crackdown on government employees talking to journalists, the Freedom of Information Act has gained a new importance as a source of information. But critics accuse the government of deliberately making the ... >> view original

Windows 10 Signifies Microsoft's Shift in Strategy

SEATTLE — Next week, when Microsoft releases Windows 10, the latest version of the company's operating system, the software will offer a mix of the familiar and new to the people who run earlier versions of it on more than 1.5 billion computers and ... >> view original

Review: U2 Kicks Off 8 Nights in New York With Depth and Spectacle

The set included some of U2's electronic midperiod songs and its spare, stirring early ones — including the piano-and-voice “October,” not played since 1989 — but there were also long stretches of new material about old days in Dublin. A second ... >> view original

As Beijing Becomes a Supercity, the Rapid Growth Brings Pains

Now, the government has embarked on an ambitious plan to make Beijing the center of a new supercity of 130 million people. The planned megalopolis, a metropolitan area that would be about six times the size of New York's, is meant to revamp northern ... >> view original