New York

In an effort to encourage more New Yorkers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the state is offering scratch-off lottery tickets and a chance to win $5 million.

Finnan Murphy, from Pittsford, New York, was the Grand Prize winner of the Spring LOC Derby.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book, "American Crisis," last year as the pandemic gripped the world. He will earn another $2 million over the next two years.

The man accused of shooting three people in Times Square has been arrested in Florida.

Three of Broadway’s biggest shows, Hamilton, The Lion King, and Wicked, have announced when they will resume performances.

A judge dismissed the bankruptcy case, which was over whether the powerful gun-rights group could incorporate in Texas instead of New York.

The gunman was reportedly trying to shoot his brother when he struck three people including a four-year-old girl.

Ticket sales to Broadway shows can resume May 6 with performances cleared to resume starting September 14.

Pointing to a successful effort to vaccinate millions of New Yorkers from the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will fully reopen on July 1.

Federal investigators executed a search warrant at the Manhattan home of former President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

One person was killed and two others injured in a shooting at a Stop & Shop supermarket on Long Island on Tuesday.

A man was arrested on Long Island after he called a medical center to say he had left his cocaine there, said police.

Cariol Horne, a Buffalo, New York, police officer who was fired for trying to stop another officer from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect, has won a years-long legal fight.

A doorman and a concierge worker at a luxury apartment building in Hell's Kitchen have been fired after the building owner said they did not come to the aid of 65-year-old Vilma Kari, a Filipina woman who was brutally attacked in front of them in what is being called a hate-crime attack.

The couple planned to travel to Yemen aboard a cargo ship in an attempt to stay away from law enforcement, according to a federal prosecutor.

New Yorkers can now possess up to 3 ounces of cannabis under a legalization bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

A convicted killer on parole was charged in the vicious attack on an Asian American woman in New York City.