35-year-old Brooklyn resident Barry Baldwin has been charged with hate crimes in connection with seven "knockout" assaults, including attacks on two elderly women and a mother who was working with her daughter, the NYPD said on Saturday
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will announce plans at his annual State of the State address on Wednesday to relax limits on marijuana to allow for medical use of the drug, UPI.com reported. The governor's office said that the governor plans to use an executive action to bypass the state legislature.
A "polar vortex" of dense and frigid air descended upon much of the U.S. early Monday, which dropped temperatures in some parts of the country to near-record lows. The weather conditions prompted wind chill warnings from Montana to Alabama,
