JOHN MINCHILLO

A firefighter places a flower on the names of the deceased during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing at the 9/11 Memorial, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Bell tolls as New York marks the anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
New York City has marked the anniversary of the 1993 bombing at the old World Trade Center, when Islamic extremists first attempted to bring down the twin towers. Six people, including a pregnant woman, died in the Feb. 26 blast.
 
Visitors take photos of the the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's rare Amorphophallus gigas, a relative of the "corpse flower," that has bloomed for the first time since arriving in 2018, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
Visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are lining up to see — and smell — a rare bloom at that has the scent of a rotting corpse. The rare Amorphophallus gigas has bloomed for the first time since arriving in Brooklyn in 2018.
 
A previously unknown musical manuscript, possibly by Frederic Chopin, rests in a display case after it was discovered at The Morgan Library & Museum, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in New York. It's discovery marks the first such find since 1930, though its authenticity remains debated. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum?
A previously unknown musical work written by composer Frederic Chopin appears to have been found in a library in New York City.
 
File - A woman looks at artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art "Comedian" during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
How a viral, duct-taped banana came to be worth $1 million
Walk into any supermarket and you can usually buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s in New York.
 
People visit the Vessel as it reopens with safety features in New York, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Kena Betancur)
Tourists return to NYC’s Vessel sculpture after it reopens with netting to prevent deaths
A building-sized sculpture popular with tourists in Manhattan is open again with new safety features meant to prevent people from jumping off its viewpoints. Security guards and floor-to-ceiling mesh barriers now prevent people from doing so.
 
A house is damaged by a tornado spawned by Tropical Storm Debby in Wilson County, N.C. on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (Christopher Long/The Wilson Times via AP)
A deadly tornado, flooding rains and swollen rivers plague residents in the path of Debby
Tornadoes spawned by Debby have leveled homes, damaged a school and killed one person. At least three tornadoes fueled by the tropical system were reported overnight in North Carolina.
 
Charles Grainger cleans up around his house in the historic district of French Quarter Creek as flood waters recede from Tropical Storm Debby, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Huger, S.C. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
Tropical Storm Debby doles out repeat deluges for weather-weary residents
Tropical Storm Debby is still pushing bad weather up the East Coast, but floodwaters are starting to recede in South Carolina. Residents there began the near-ritualistic task of assessing the damage Wednesday.
 
Savannah Fire Advanced Firefighters Andrew Stevenson, front, and Ron Strauss carry food to residents in the Tremont Park neighborhood that where stranded in flooding from Tropical Storm Debby, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
Tropical Storm Debby drenches Southeast with rain, high water as it drifts along the Atlantic coast
Tropical Storm Debby has drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina and is not finished bringing heavy rain to the eastern U.S. Debby was centered just east of Savannah on Tuesday afternoon.
 
3 dead and 8 injured after truck strikes group celebrating July Fourth in Manhattan park
New York City authorities say three people were killed and eight others injured after a pickup truck drove into a group celebrating the Fourth of July.
 
Tunde Onakoya, 29, a Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate, plays a chess game in Times Square, Friday, April 19, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
A Nigerian chess champion plays the royal game for 60 hours — a new global chess record
A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate has played chess nonstop for 60 hours. Tunde Onakoya was attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.
 
Melissa Morgan, of Northfield, Mass., looks at the water flow at the Whetstone Brook in Brattleboro, Vt., Monday, July 10, 2023. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)
Relentless rain causes floods in Northeast, prompts rescues and swamps Vermont’s capital
Heavy rain has washed out roads and forced evacuations in the Northeast, especially in Vermont and New York. One woman in New York’s hard-hit Hudson Valley drowned as she was trying to leave her flooded home.
 
At NYC subway’s last stop, lingering riders offered aid
The efforts to clear and clean New York City’s subway trains has taken on a specific urgency as a result of the coronavirus.
 
As virus kills, NYC shortens deadline for claiming dead
As New York City deals with a mounting coronavirus death toll, the city has shortened the amount of time it will hold unclaimed remains.
 
1 dead, 15 injured in Cincinnati nightclub gunfight
Police say gunfire erupted inside a crowded Cincinnati nightclub after a dispute among several men, killing one man and injuring 15 other people. No arrests have been made.