Man in critical condition after jumping into Bronx Zoo's tiger pit

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A man is in critical condition at a nearby hospital after jumping out of a monorail car into the Bronx Zoo's tiger pit, the zoo's director said.

NYPD releases surveillance video from Wednesday Lindsay Lohan arrest

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York City Police Department released surveillance video Thursday, September 20th from a traffic incident a day earlier that led to Lindsay Lohan being charged with leaving the scene of an accident.

All Empire State shooting victims were wounded by officers

NEW YORK (CNN) -- All nine people injured in Friday's shooting in front of the Empire State Building were wounded by police gunfire, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters Saturday, August 25th.

2 dead, 8 wounded by gunman outside Empire State Building

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A disgruntled former worker sparked chaos in front of the Empire State Building on Friday when he shot and killed a co-worker and engaged in a gun battle with police, leaving at least eight others wounded, authorities said.

New York home explosion kills infant, injures 15

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Police say a powerful explosion destroyed a house in Long Island late Tuesday morning, August 14th, leaving an 18-month-old boy dead and at least 15 injured.

30 injured in 6-alarm fire at New York apartments

(CNN) -- 30 people suffered minor injuries during an early morning fire at an apartment building in New York Wednesday, July 18th, a fire department official told CNN.

Bus driver who caught plunging Brooklyn child brushes off 'hero' talk

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A veteran New York City bus driver on Tuesday, July 17th played down any claims of heroism for snagging a seven-year-old girl who fell three stories from a Brooklyn apartment building a day earlier.

'Craziness' reigns aboard flight waiting to take off from NYC

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The situation aboard an American Eagle jet waiting to take off from New York's LaGuardia Airport turned into "absolute craziness" when a frustrated flight attendant started yelling over the intercom, a passenger said Friday.

NYC school bus monitor weighs in on bullying she endured

It may be the saddest story of this week -- a 68-year-old New York City school bus monitor endures bullying like you can't imagine from middle schoolers.

Bullied bus monitor does not want to press charges

(CNN) -- A New York bus monitor -- the target of a profanity-laced tirade by middle school students that was caught on video -- does not want to press charges, police said Thursday, June 21st.

New York City seeks to ban big sodas from restaurants, food carts

NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York City is set to ban the sale of large-size sodas and other sugary beverages in an effort to combat rising obesity rates, city officials said Thursday, May 31st.

Man now suspected in Patz death was reported to police decades ago

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A member of Pedro Hernandez's family walked into a Camden, New Jersey, police station in the 1980s and reported that Hernandez told relatives and others that he had killed a boy in New York and threw the body near a Dumpster -- but there's no indication anything came out of that report, the family member told CNN.

'Pocket calls' burdening 911 responders in New York

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A "pocket dial" mistake can result in an unwanted phone call, annoying for the recipient and potentially embarrassing to the caller.

VIDEO: Hit-and-run-crash in Buffalo, NY caught on camera

BUFFALO, NY (CNN) -- Police in Buffalo, New York just released surveillance video of a hit and run that happened last week.

Closing arguments may come in subway plot trial

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Closing arguments could begin Thursday, April 26th in the trial of a man accused of trying to detonate a bomb in the New York subway system.Prosecutors say Adis Medunjanin, a Bosnian-born American, conspired with admitted terrorists Najubullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay to detonate bombs in New York subways in 2009.Medunjanin is the only one of the trio on trial as the two alleged co-conspirators in the case have pleaded guilty.Earlier in the trial Zazi, who is believed to be the mastermind, calmly told a jury how he acquired the ingredients to make the bombs.If the attack was against the United States, then it was "moral," Zazi said.Zazi said the group was trained in Pakistan by al Qaeda in 2008 and 2009 and then returned to the United States with instructions to attack.Authorities widely regard the plot as the most serious al Qaeda attempt to launch an attack on American soil since 9/11.Medunjanin's lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, has disputed prosecutors' claims and said in opening statements that prosecutors have used incendiary rhetoric to inflame the jury."The truth is Adis Medunjanin is not a terrorist. ...

Delta Airlines growing service at Mitchell Airport by 20 percent

MILWAUKEE -- Frontier Airlines may be slashing service at Mitchell International Airport, but another carrier is picking up the pace.