'SoHo Wild Man' Richard Pearson Allegedly Stabs Street Vendor
Pearson ran up to a table where a man was selling cellphone cases on Broadway between Houston and Prince streets and stabbed him multiple times, the victim's partner said.
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Pearson ran up to a table where a man was selling cellphone cases on Broadway between Houston and Prince streets and stabbed him multiple times, the victim's partner said.
The family of 13-year-old Wellington Gavin and 13-year-old Erikson Villa are expected to be at a news conference Monday afternoon with State Sen. Ruben Diaz to highlight safety concerns at Starlight Park.
Three boys, ages 5-8, were playing basketball at 6:54 p.m. when a van pulled up, New York State Parks Police said.
Lee Ielpi, the center's president and co-founder, said he's still seeing full tours daily.
The NYPD recorded 369 misdemeanor sex crimes and eight felony sex crimes at the transit hub or on trains approaching it from July 2008 through June 2013, the Daily News reported.
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a ban on sports gambling in New Jersey, rebuffing an attempt to bring betting on professional and college sporting events to Atlantic City casinos and the state's racetracks.
The measures include provisions requiring insurance companies to consistently cover treatment for addiction, funding for public awareness of drug use and funding for more New York state troopers to investigate heroin trafficking.
Elected officials and health experts on Long Island are calling for the federal government's help in fighting a breed of mosquito known for carrying the potentially deadly dengue fever virus.
According to the agency's preliminary report, witnesses told the NTSB that the weather was "dark, rainy and foggy'' the morning of the crash.
Monica Peterman, 45, was on her way to work when her car was struck on East Main Street and Route 111 in Smithtown on June 14. Peterman was taken to a local hospital where she died.
A young boy was playing in his fenced-in front yard on Terrance Avenue near Marian Street when the SUV pulled up, according to police. "Come on, I got candy," the driver allegedly said to the boy.
It happened just after 10 p.m. on June 19 at Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Church on the corner of West Fordham Road and University Avenue.
Safety improvements have been made on a deadly stretch of Hempstead Turnpike in Nassau County but some advocates said it's not enough.
A woman with Down syndrome who went missing over the weekend following a doctor's appointment in downtown Brooklyn has been found.
