Trial begins for guards charged in deadly beating at N.Y. prison
Prosecutors say the former upstate New York prison guards were part of a "gang" that took part in an act of of "sheer, unimaginable brutality."
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Prosecutors say the former upstate New York prison guards were part of a "gang" that took part in an act of of "sheer, unimaginable brutality."
What started as a dispute on a bus spread to a scuffle and ended in gunfire Tuesday in Oakland Gardens, police said.
Prosecutors say Edwin Cruz Gomez propositioned 16-year-old Jhoanny Saray Gomez Alvarez and her mother before hitting them with his SUV.
A woman was sexually assaulted in her Brooklyn home by a stranger who climbed through an unlocked window, police said.
FCI Fort Dix, one of several dozen federal prisons with a residential drug treatment program, will best allow Sean "Diddy" Combs "to address drug abuse issues," his lawyer said.
The NYPD welcomed more than 1,000 recruits into the academy over the summer. Community leaders say, however, thousands more officers are needed to keep crime down.
There has been a 42% surge in reports of domestic violence on Long Island since 2019.
A neighbor broke up the fight by tackling the attacker. Police took the 40-year-old suspect into custody.
Kristen Hogan faces an attempted murder charge after police said she laced a bottle of wine with a toxic chemical and her partner drank it.
A student brought a loaded gun to a high school in Brooklyn Monday morning, police said. It happened at East Brooklyn High School on Kings Highway in Flatbush.
Mark Sanchez was hospitalized with multiple stab wounds following a violent altercation over the weekend.
Police say Judith Byron died after the SUV blew through a red light while she was in the crosswalk at Seventh and 41st Street in Sunset Park on Saturday night.
A single shot was fired, killing the man on Coventry Road in East Flatbush, early Sunday morning.
A 17-year-old boy is facing first-degree murder charges in New Jersey after he allegedly struck and killed two teenage girls in a hit-and-run.
Family and friends came together in the wake of tragedy to remember a young life taken far too soon.
