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Update:  Tom Brady's appeal of his four-game suspension lasted more than 10 hours Tuesday, ending in the early evening. The sight of Commissioner Roger Goodell leaving the league offices after he heard Brady and representatives from the players' union during the lengthy meeting, confirmed its conclusion...

Amtrak now says its rail service between New York and Philadelphia will probably be suspended through Monday, while tracks and other equipment are repaired in the area where a derailment Tuesday night killed eight people. The railroad had earlier said limited service would resume Monday...

(Associated Press) - New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton has promoted a young officer after he was fatally shot on the job. Bratton posthumously promoted Officer Brian Moore to detective first grade during his funeral on Long Island on Friday...

Wareham Police arrest two men after the discovery of heroin in an apartment complex. Wareham Police carried out a search warrant on Monday at the Union Pond Apartments in the town, and found a man exiting the bathroom where a powdery substance believed to be heroin was scattered on the floor and on the toilet...

// Credit: Justice for DJ Henry via Facebook No federal civil rights charges will be brought in the 2010 shooting death of Danroy Henry Jr. a college football player from Easton, by a Pleasantville, N.Y police officer.

Funerals are planned Sunday for seven siblings from an Orthodox Jewish family who died in an early morning house fire in New York City. Authorities say their mother and a teenage sister survived by jumping from the second floor of their Brooklyn home, but both suffered burns and smoke inhalation...

The singer of the hit "It's My Party" is dead.  TMZ reports that Lesley Gore passed away Monday in New York after battling cancer.  She was 68-years-old. Gore surged into the spotlight in 1963 with her chart-topping hit "It's My Party" from her first album, "I'll Cry If I Want To...

Cities across the nation are gearing up for marches celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, while drawing attention to police violence directed at communities of color. The cases of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and the "Black Lives Matter Movement" have become national symbols of a conversation about police brutality and racial injustice...

An Afghan military officer who said he would be a target of the Taliban if sent home is awaiting an immigration judge's decision on whether he can stay in the United States. Maj. Jan Arash appeared Tuesday in U.S. Immigration Court in western New York, where Judge Steven Connelly was expected to rule on his asylum claim...

Tensions continue to simmer around the country after the deaths of two unarmed black men at the hands of Police in Missouri and New York. Speaking on his weekly radio show on WBSM, Mayor Jon Mitchell says he believes a different set of circumstances are at work in New Bedford...