The employee, who works at 320 Jay St. in Downtown Brooklyn, tested positive for the illness Thursday night, prompting the Vera Institute to tell a majority of their employees to work from home.

The judge, whose name was not released, was last in the courthouse on Mar. 12, officials said.

The beloved 49-year-old priest, born in Mexico City, passed away Friday evening at the Wyckoff Medical Center in Brooklyn, the diocese said. Father Jorge, as he was known to worshippers, served as the diocesan coordinator of the ministry for Mexican-Americans among his other duties.

Frederick Scheinin, 29, of Sunnyside, Queens, allegedly chatted for months with a federal agent posing as a minor, and now faces charges in Manhattan federal court of attempting to entice a minor and attempting to produce child pornography.

The results from the city’s annual foster care census showed a precipitous decline from the 1990s, when there were 50,000 kids in foster care, and a continued improvement from 2010, when there were 17,000.

Flushing High School junior Arialis Guzman said she “just didn’t get treated right" while police held her and a friend for more than a day in the aftermath of an after school altercation. The teens spent the night of Wednesday, Feb. 12 and much of the next day, Feb. 13, handcuffed to a bench in a Queens police precinct.

NYPD officers made fewer than 150 arrests in city schools between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019 — about half the number of arrests cops made during the same months last year.

City Council Member Debi Rose (D - Staten Island) said city students shouldn’t feel obligated to march with their schools or bands in the parade while event organizers refuse to let the Staten Island Pride Center march.

Under the policy, middle and high schools may consider attendance records when making admissions decisions — and fourth- and seventh-grade attendance records can be a factor in getting into the city’s most selective public schools.

In a letter, the group noted that past pandemics show large-scale social restrictions that keep people physically separated can make the most difference if done before the illness becomes widespread.

Education officials, in a Friday morning webinar, instructed all city principals to prepare for an extended shutdown by assembling materials to send home with students, reviewing how to use online teaching platforms and deciding how to communicate with families, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The News.

The small businesses, many of which already run on razor-thin margins, are struggling to make end meet amid the crisis.

The United Federation of Teachers tested security camera technology from a company affiliated with Clearview AI

City schools were originally supposed to be off April 9-17.

Club Players Association chairman Micheál Briody accepts that counties will have to greatly alter the structure of club competitions if a window for playing does become available later this year.

A day after a father and son were charged in the February killing of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, a Georgia official promised a thorough probe into the case and said the man who filmed the horrific incident is also under investigation. In a news conference Friday morning, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said “every stone will be turned over" and if the facts lead agents to make another arrest “they will do that.”

How “change blindness” prevents you from seeing this 10 of clubs turn into an ace of spades.

The breakthrough suggests that bots can navigate complex games involving multiple stakeholders and hidden information—situations that better approximate the real world than two-player board games.

There are a heck of a lot of reasons not to.

An AI chip designed to mimic certain aspects of the human brain has given a bicycle an unprecedented level of autonomy.

Delays during migration can imperil birds’ chances of a successful breeding season.

Five episodes exploring the fascinating science and innovations in health and medicine.

The film will premiere on the 12th of May.
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The NBA fined Clippers forward Paul George $35,000 on Thursday for publicly criticizing officials after a loss in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Lee Zeidman didn't know when Kobe Bryant's memorial would be but he knew there was only one place it should be held: Staples Center.

A handful of NBA teams including the Lakers have offered coronavirus testing for their players, a service not available to the public. Here's how.

A pediatrician offers tips on how to help kids understand the need for face masks due to COVID-19.

Angels pitcher Matt Andriese impressed manager Joe Maddon during his spring training start against the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.

Business groups, nonprofits, healthcare associations and some legislators are criticizing some moves the California governor made in response to coronavirus outbreak.

Long and intense heat waves are nothing new in Southern California and the Southwest, but amid COVID-19, public health experts are warning they could become deadlier for people self-isolating in homes they can't keep cool.

Call them victory anthems. Every time a patient with COVID-19 is well enough to be discharged, hospitals in New York and elsewhere play songs of celebration over the intercom. A doctor explains.

Call them victory anthems. Every time a patient with COVID-19 is well enough to be discharged, hospitals in New York and elsewhere play songs of celebration over the intercom. A doctor explains.

(MedPage Today) -- "When there is no wind, we row." What a cancer doctor-turned-cancer patient learned from his own patients. (ASCO Connection via KevinMD) Under most circumstances, fewer cancer diagnoses might be good news, but that's not necessarily...

The Bridgegate scandal was no crime, the Supreme Court ruled, tossing the convictions of two officials who caused a traffic jam as political punishment to then-Gov. Chris Christie’s enemies.

Henry Sylvain Gindt II, 34, of Long Island City lied that he had the lab capabilities to run the tests, which he sold through two web sites for $135 to $200 apiece, authorities said. The Secret Service and federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh said Thursday that they’ve charged Gindt with mail and wire fraud.

The 36-year-old Domino’s Pizza deliveryman was dropping off a pie to a building on Fort George Hill near Fairview Ave on Sunday about 9 p.m. when the crew of crooks took his $1400 bike at knifepoint and cut the man’s hand. He refused medical attention, cops said.

According to the NYPD, there have been 374 social distancing-related arrests since COVID-19 restrictions were put in place. Of that number, 304 of the arrests have been of African-American or Hispanic people.

As the country and sports world confronted the fast spreading of COVID-19, Dodgers officials Wednesday said the organization remained unsure how it will proceed with its season.

A day after a father and son were charged in the February killing of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, a Georgia official promised a thorough probe into the case and said the man who filmed the horrific incident is also under investigation. In a news conference Friday morning, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said “every stone will be turned over" and if the facts lead agents to make another arrest “they will do that.”

The park had been criticized for allowing visitors to access roads and South Rim view points during the coronavirus pandemic.

Just because you're antsy, L.A. County officials say, that doesn't make your trip essential.

Rita Walters advocated fiercely for equality through school integration and hiring practices, first as a member of the L.A. school board and then on the L.A. City Council

L.A. County officials warned Friday that the region needs to increase social distancing to slow the spread of coronavirus. Stay-at-home restrictions could remain into summer.

It could be sometime in May before California officials begin to seriously contemplate how they might start to gradually ease the stay-at-home order.

With no treatment for the new coronavirus, some people are trying alternative medicines. In China and India, the government has advised them to do so.

Most people who get COVID-19 will experience mild symptoms and will recover with rest and plenty of fluids. Over-the-counter drugs can help with fever.

Pops of purple, novel knits and head-to-toe leather join the cape among the season's top five trends.

Several University of California regents expressed deep skepticism about the use of SAT and ACT tests in admissions decisions, signaling the standardized tests may be headed for elimination as an application requirement.

A former admissions official at USC will plead guilty to helping graduate students from China gain acceptance to the school by submitting doctored transcripts and fraudulent recommendation letters.

The exclusive Brentwood School has returned money it received under the Paycheck Protection Program after President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin leveled criticism at private schools that took funds from the federal coronavirus aid program.