October 13, 2013 will be Staten Island Day, dedicated to making a positive impact on the communities and providing support for ongoing recovery efforts, the New York Road Runners and Staten Island borough president James Molinaro have announced.
The state will give homeowners 100 percent of their property's pre-Sandy value plus an additional five percent if they stay on Staten Island. While there have been reports that homeowners across the Tri-State would rather rebuild than take the buyout, that is not the case in Oakwood Beach.
One of the dogs had bitten a person's hand. Eyewitnesses say that the animal was a pit bull, and several people tell Eyewitness News that they heard between three and four shots.
The online rap video, "My World is Blue" is now catching a bad rap. According to Daniel Haley and the rapper "Incite Deroit", who collaborated on this project by "White Trash Clan" showing, they say, the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
The family of Sarai Sierra was finalizing arrangements for her funeral, and she will be buried just steps away from the apartment where she and her husband were raising their two sons.
Turkey's state-run agency says authorities have finished an autopsy on a New York City woman found dead in Istanbul and DNA evidence from it has been submitted to a crime lab.
According to a Turkish news report, a man who was questioned over the disappearance of a New York City woman in Istanbul has been released from police custody. But the report says he may again be called to help authorities with the investigation.
Choosing a prom dress to wear is an even tougher decision for some teens this year since their families and thousands of others in the Tri-State area are still struggling to pick up the pieces from Sandy.
A soldier who lost all four limbs in a roadside bombing in Iraq says he's looking forward to driving and swimming with new arms after undergoing a double-arm transplant.