More than 200 animals were found at the home of a wildlife rehabilitator in New York where authorities also discovered a 95-year-old woman who was essentially trapped in her room due to clutter in the residence.

Firefighters in New York have knocked down a dwindling brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island but officials say high wind gusts could leave the region vulnerable to additional blazes.

Authorities say a woman whose remains were among discoveries that became known as the Gilgo Beach killings has been identified after 27 years.

New York regulators have approved 99 new provisional licenses for recreational marijuana dispensaries.

Police say an 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home but found to be breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she had been taken.

New York officials are warning a judge that a court fight over licensing rules for marijuana dispensaries could wind up hurting small farms that just harvested their first cannabis crop.

FILE In this Nov. 15, 1974 file photo, Ronald DeFeo Jr., center, leaves Suffolk County district court after a hearing, on New York's Long Island. DeFeo, the man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the book and movie "The Amityville Horror" has died in prison, officials said Monday., March 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)ALBANY, N.Y. – The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the “The Amityville Horror” book and movies has died, prison officials said Monday. DeFeo was serving a sentence of 25 years to life in the 1974 killings in Amityville, on suburban Long Island. The corrections department said it couldn't disclose why DeFeo was hospitalized, citing health privacy laws.

Polling workers inspect and count absentee ballots, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in New York. Some county election boards chose to give absentee vote tallies to the candidates, but not the public. “The process lacks for transparency.”The slowness of some New York counties in releasing absentee vote tallies has been less of an issue in past years because, historically, the state hasn't had a very big mail-in vote. But news of that dwindling lead came mostly from the candidates themselves, not the county election boards tallying the vote. “This race is quickly becoming a poster child for the need for a fundamental overhaul of the way we conduct elections in New York State,” he said.

SUFFOLK COUNTY, Va. - Virginia State Police have canceled a senior alert issued for 79-year-old Goerge Holton Jr.Holton was located Tuesday. ORIGINAL STORYA senior from Tennessee is missing, and he may be traveling in Virginia. Virginia State Police issued a senior alert on behalf of the Signal Mountain Police Department in Tennessee on Monday at 10:40 p.m.Police are looking for 79-year-old George M. Holton, Jr., who was last seen on Monday around 10 a.m. at 540 Creedmore Road in Raleigh, North Carolina. He may be traveling in Suffolk County, Virginia. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hamilton County, Tennessee Emergency Communication Center, Sgt.