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More than six months after a report outlined recommendations for better managing the issue of off-road vehicles damaging swaths of New Jersey state land, including the Pinelands, environmental advocates say they are no closer to a solution. Jason Howell, an activist with the Pinelands Preservation Alliance which commissioned the New Jersey State Lands Management Report,

Mayor Adams: ‘If New Yorkers don’t feel safe, we are failing’ New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new effort to combat crime on the city’s subways. NEW YORK – New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced new efforts to curb violence and other

When Hurricane Ian slammed into Lee County, Florida, as a near-Category 5 storm last month, it left in its wake not just widespread destruction but also a surge of rare “flesh-eating” bacterial infections, state health data shows. Flesh-eating bacteria can cause “necrotizing fasciitis” — an infection that triggers aggressive inflammation in the tissue surrounding muscles

Why surgeons removed woman’s entire GI tract In March, doctors removed Amanda DeAngelis’s stomach, gallbladder, and large intestine. Amanda DeAngelis, of Allentown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, was once an active young woman working as a publicist for independent films. Then a rare combination of debilitating diseases took away her bright future.  For years, stays in

Battle over buses with migrants Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly said that his administration has never gotten a heads up about the buses carrying asylum-seekers from Texas to New York. But an official in Texas disputes that. NEW YORK – For months, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown has seen bus after bus arrive

NYC subway violent crimes continue to increase In yet another example of violent crime on the New York City subway, a man was pushed onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn on Friday, as New Yorkers call for Mayor Eric Adams to do more to make the city safe. NEW YORK – In yet another incident

NYC woman pushed onto subway tracks speaks out A woman is speaking exclusively to FOX 5 NY after being pushed onto the tracks of the New York City subway by a random man. NEW YORK – Crime and violence in New York City's subways has been a growing problem in 2022, leaving behind a trail

An aerial photograph of a Rice’s whale in the Gulf of Mexico. The species was officially named in 2021 and is only found in the northeast region of the gulf, making it the only whale species endemic to U.S. waters.  (Image credit: NOAA) (opens in new tab) A recently discovered species of whale that lives

 Scholars may have just discovered a fragment of the world’s oldest complete star map.  The map segment, which was found beneath the text on a sheet of medieval parchment, is thought to be a copy of the long-lost star catalog of the second century B.C. Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) On a crisp fall morning, eager volunteers fanned out in the leafy suburban Atlanta neighborhood to knock on doors, trying to persuade reluctant and skeptical conservatives to register to vote in next months midterm elections. Its painstaking work anywhere, but especially pivotal in battleground Georgia, as Donald Trumps lies of a rigged

Missing Princeton University student Misrach Ewunetie was found dead Thursday after a dayslong search, officials said. Ewuneties body was found by a campus facilities employee outside near tennis courts and a university facilities building around 1 p.m., according to Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri. An autopsy by the Middlesex County Medical Examiners Office will