Gov. Kathy Hochul now has until Christmas Eve to decide on the highly contentious Grieving Families Act, a bill to expand the state’s wrongful death statute. The bill was sent Thursday to Hochul ...

A “peacemaker” was heard saying “stop fighting” to his killer, outside a pub, his last words before he was struck with a fatal punch to the head, a court has heard. David Hallatt, 57, died from blunt ...