New York City authorities are searching for a suspect who set a man on fire in Times Square Sunday morning. Police responded to a 45-year-old man on fire on West 41st Street and 7th Avenue just before 4 a.

Longtime U.S. Rep Nita Lowey, 87, of New York,. has died from metastatic breast cancer, her family announced Sunday.

Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87. Lowey's family, in a statement shared by the Westchester County Democratic Committee,

A liberal Democrat from New York, she championed women’s issues and rose to one of the most influential positions on Capitol Hill during 32 years in Congress.

New York Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt, 29, who went 5-5 with a 2.85 ERA in 16 starts for the Yankees last year, has been scratched from his Grapefruit League start against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday while he deals with some shoulder soreness.

The New York Yankees may have another concern in their starting rotation as they scratched an upcoming starter on Sunday.

Already minus Gerrit Cole and Luis Gil, the New York Yankees announced Clarke Schmidt would miss Monday's start with shoulder soreness.