Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to pay $575 million – including more than $34 million combined to New Jersey, New York and Connecticut – to settle charges that it engaged in a variety of sales, lending, and other improper business practices for more than a decade.The bank also has agreed to pay more than $385 million to 850,000 auto finance customers who were wrongly charged premiums, ...

UPDATE: In a random coincidence, a teacher featured in a PBS special about aviation this past week was involved in an emergency landing at the Paramus Golf Course early Sunday afternoon.Three minor injuries were reported after the 1984 fixed-wing, single-engine Mooney M20K made an emergency landing around 12:30 p.m. on the fairway of the 9th hole off Paramus Road."Three minor injuries, ...

You can stop forwarding that latest warning from your Facebook friends about your account being cloned. You weren’t. It’s bogus. And you're just making it worse.It starts out: “Hi….I actually got another friend request from you yesterday…which I ignored so you may want to check your account…”Then it tells you to “hold your finger on the message until the forward button appears…then hit ...

UPDATE: A 20-year-old college tennis player from Queens was killed when his speeding vehicle slammed into the Camp Merritt Memorial Monument in Cresskill and burst into flames before dawn Saturday, authorities told Daily Voice.Video from a gas station at the circle shows the crash and explosion, which tore off the front of the 2016 Infiniti Q50, split the rest in two and hurled ...

Federal authorities issued a public health alert Friday over raw chicken products possibly contaminated by Salmonella.The Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. products affected -- which may include raw whole chicken, raw chicken parts, -- were produced and sold to consumers from last September until this past June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said.The ...

After spending nearly 5 hours in the air burning fuel, a jet that blew two tires after taking off from Teterboro carrying rapper Post Malone and 15 other people Tuesday morning landed safely at New York's Stewart Airport in Orange County around 3:50 p.m.A fleet of ambulances and other responders -- including an AirMed One medical chopper from Hackensack University Medical Center -- were ...

The NYPD Emergency Services Unit led the charge to Trump Tower after several suspicious packages reportedly were found early Friday evening.Fifth Avenue from 57th to 56th Street was closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic following the rush-hour discoveries.The Trumps had just arrived at Bedminster at the time.

Authorities found a missing at-risk Rutherford man early Monday in Port Chester, 45 miles from home.John Willey, 60, apparently was intent on visiting a friend in White Plains when he walked off from his West Passaic Avenue home around 5:30 p.m. Saturday without his cellphone, police said.A New York Metropolitan Transit Authority worker found him near a bridge in the Westchester village ...

One of the first photos released of Westchester rapper DMX from prison shows him heavier and grayer -- which some fans believe may be a good sign.The once-muscular Earl Simmons has a pot belly and gray hair in the photo published by The Jasmine Brand.Some fans say the additional weight could simply come from no longer using cocaine and crack. Simmons was sentenced in March to a year in ...

UPDATE: Hours after a protestor climbed to the base of the Statue of Liberty -- insisting she wouldn't relent "until all of the children have been released" --- specially-trained police followed her up and took her into custody.As the hours passed, NBC4 New York showed police negotiating with the woman and very slowly inching their way toward her.The network then cut away for ...