Bob Hennelly

To date, the alleged fraud relating to CityTime has only involved subcontractors. This latest development now implicates the prime contractor and compels a comprehensive review of SAI...

WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly discusses the breaking New Jersey Supreme Court ruling ordering the state to increase funding for the state's poorest schools.

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Almost a decade after the September 11th attacks, which led to the deaths of 343 local firefighters, federal and state budget makers are cutting support for local fire departments. Thousands of firefighters have lost, or are losing their jobs.

In New York City, faced with billions in cuts from the federal and state governments, the Bloomberg administration is contemplating the closure of 20 fire companies. 

On the heels of the release of the Bloomberg Administration's list of 20 fire companies facing possible closure to help fill the budget cap, some are calling into question the criteria used to determine which companies would be on the chopping block.

In any other place in the universe, a fight over whether your revenue is $900 million or just $500 million above projection would be a heartwarming news story.

But not in New Jersey, where word of a surge in income tax revenues from high-end earners has only intensified the Trenton budget battle.

On Monday, New York City Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano told a City Council panel that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to cut 20 fire companies would negatively impact every Council district.

New York City Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano told a City Council panel Monday that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to cut 20 fire companies will negatively impact every single council district. He blamed both federal and state cut backs.

Two Federal law enforcement sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, say the FBI did not take the case of the two alleged Que...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, one of the world's top finance figures and a likely candidate for the French presidency, was in NYPD custody Saturday evening in connection with the alleged...

WNYC has learned the lack of Federal participation in the high profile case of two Queens men alleged to be plotting to blow up City synagogues was related to concerns it was not a bonafide terrorism case.

Two men have been caught conspiring to bomb synagogues in Manhattan in an undercover sting. The New York Police Department, who led the operation, say Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh purchased weapons and an inert hand grenade from undercover officers, after saying that they were planning a terror attack. There is no indication the two are affiliated with a terrorist organization. Joining The Takeaway is Robert Hennelly, senior reporter for our flagship station, WNYC.

Two Queens men who allegedly planned a terror plot against a Manhattan synagogue and the Empire State Building were "lone wolves" with no known connection to al-Qaeda, authorities s...

The U.S. Department of Justice is opening a wide-ranging probe into the Newark Police Department's civil rights track record. The announcement comes several months after the New Jers...

"Xanadu" is now "American Dream Meadowlands" and it's going to be the biggest mall in the US. Bob Hennelly, WNYC Reporter, talks about the ambitious new development, what it means for Chris Christie's administration, and other local news.

Following the unveiling of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's final budget, the battle lines are now drawn between the mayor and City Council — and revealing a national trend of local government being increasingly left to fend for themselves.

You're an ambitious, high-profile Republican governor of a state in chronic budget crisis and in a nation with a sputtering recovery. The state's corrupt "pay to play" politics, left you a two-million-square-foot mall monstrosity named Xanadu that's yet to open. Its exterior is violently ugly and it is built on state land so close to the Big Apple that its value is through the roof. Worse yet, in just three years, the eyes of the world will be on the monstrosity because your brand new NFL stadium next door is hosting the Superbowl in 2014.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said New York remains the No. 1 target for terrorists — even after the death of Osama bin Laden: This is seen as the most important city in the world to...

Osama bin Laden was killed following a raid that was months in the making, according to senior White House officials who detailed the deadly operation that brought down the architect of September 11 terror attacks.

The Christie Administration is in the final stages of closing a deal with a new developer to revive the moribund Xanadu retail and entertainment complex in the Meadowlands.

An official close to the deal says the state could provide as much as $400 million dollars in economic development bonds to help the developer complete the $2 billion project. Xanadu was supposed to open before the recession but stalled because of management issues and the economy.