Nationally, internationally and more regionally known notables we lost in 2017 included longtime giants in their fields, from Tom Petty, Gregg Allman, Glen Campbell, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino to Mary Tyler Moore, Jerry Lewis, and Don Rickles.There were also those known best in the New York metropolitan area, led by Nat Hentoff and Jimmy Breslin, who died a day before David ...

In case you're wondering: Frigid to "much below average" temperatures in the region will continue until the end of next week, with "a coating to a few inches" of snow now likely on Saturday, a tristate meteorologist said Thursday afternoon.The average January low is 27 degrees: Current forecasts put it in the teens all the way down to single digits, at least until ...

UPDATE: Authorities identified a would-be suicide bomber who was caught on video prematurely detonating an improvised device beneath Times Square early Monday as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah.Ullah, a Bangladeshi national who worked at an electrical company, was "wearing an improvised low-tech explosive device attached to his body" when it accidentally went off as he walked ...

UPDATE: Authorities identified a would-be suicide bomber who was caught on video prematurely detonating an improvised device beneath Times Square early Monday as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah.Ullah, a Bangladeshi national who worked at an electrical company, was "wearing an improvised low-tech explosive device attached to his body" when it accidentally went off as he walked through ...

A Connecticut couple stopped in New Jersey near the New York border with $8,000 in suspected drug money weren’t into telling the truth – which ended up sending one of them to jail, authorities said.Mahwah Police Officer Tyler Boucher spotted a small amount of pot in the lap of 37-year-old passenger McClendon Jones of Hartford after stopping a vehicle driven by Shian Anderson, 25, of ...

Tristate area residents reported briefly feeling tremors from a 4.1-magnitude earthquake that occurred near Dover, Delaware shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday.The quake officially was recorded at 4:47 p.m. 10 kilometers east/northeast of Dover, according to the U.S. Geological Survey."Lasted five seconds or so," Eugene Bazzarelli of Wood-Ridge, New Jersey said.Residents of New ...

Uber paid hackers to delete personal data of 57 million users and drivers following a breach late last year but didn't tell anyone until Tuesday, multiple news outlets reported.Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement that he only recently learned that names, email addresses and phone numbers were exposed.No location history, credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, or dates ...

Honda is recalling 900,000 Odyssey minivans following reports that second-row seats can tip forward.All but 100,000 of the models from 2011-2017 were sold in the United States, company officials said Saturday.Honda said it received 46 reports of injuries connected to the problem, which occurs when the seats aren't properly latched.“If a second row seat is not properly latched after ...

UPDATE: The rental truck driver who authorities said mowed dozens of people -- killing eight of them -- on a popular lower Manhattan bicycle path moved to Passaic County a few months ago, authorities confirmed.Media reports that the 29-year-old Uzbek national Sayfullo Saipov was heard shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is great!") couldn't be officially confirmed. ...

UPDATE: The rental truck driver who authorities said mowed dozens of people -- killing eight of them -- on a popular lower Manhattan bicycle path moved to Passaic County a few months ago, authorities confirmed.Media reports that the 29-year-old Uzbek national Sayfullo Saipov was heard shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is great!") couldn't be officially confirmed. ...