A homicide trail that began in New York led detectives to a standoff at a Miami apartment building.

Firefighters in New York have knocked down a dwindling brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island but officials say high wind gusts could leave the region vulnerable to additional blazes.

Authorities say a woman whose remains were among discoveries that became known as the Gilgo Beach killings has been identified after 27 years.

Five people who were among dozens charged in a South Florida-based fake nursing degree scheme pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges Monday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

New York regulators have approved 99 new provisional licenses for recreational marijuana dispensaries.

New York officials are warning a judge that a court fight over licensing rules for marijuana dispensaries could wind up hurting small farms that just harvested their first cannabis crop.

FILE In this Nov. 15, 1974 file photo, Ronald DeFeo Jr., center, leaves Suffolk County district court after a hearing, on New York's Long Island. DeFeo, the man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the book and movie "The Amityville Horror" has died in prison, officials said Monday., March 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)ALBANY, N.Y. – The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the “The Amityville Horror” book and movies has died, prison officials said Monday. DeFeo was serving a sentence of 25 years to life in the 1974 killings in Amityville, on suburban Long Island. The corrections department said it couldn't disclose why DeFeo was hospitalized, citing health privacy laws.

Polling workers inspect and count absentee ballots, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in New York. Some county election boards chose to give absentee vote tallies to the candidates, but not the public. “The process lacks for transparency.”The slowness of some New York counties in releasing absentee vote tallies has been less of an issue in past years because, historically, the state hasn't had a very big mail-in vote. But news of that dwindling lead came mostly from the candidates themselves, not the county election boards tallying the vote. “This race is quickly becoming a poster child for the need for a fundamental overhaul of the way we conduct elections in New York State,” he said.