Newark Starts New Year With Homicide; 45-Year-Old Man Shot To Death
New Jersey's largest city recorded its first homicide of 2012 just hours after the new year got under way.
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New Jersey's largest city recorded its first homicide of 2012 just hours after the new year got under way.
A police officer made a shocking discovery Sunday night after confronting a man he saw skipping a subway fare in Times Square, authorities said.
"I thought that there was an easy way to make money. And just like any other easy way to make money, it's always too good to be true," he said.
The FDNY says a blaze outside the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation building in Queens was brought under control quickly Sunday night.
An off-duty federal law enforcement agent responding to an armed robbery at a pharmacy on Long Island was fatally shot along with the heist suspect, who had taken money and painkillers from the store on Saturday.
Little Nicole Hunt has some company in the first-baby department. At Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, Rania Ali also arrived just in time to ring in the new year, just after the stroke of midnight.
In New York, drivers will have to move over for more than just police and rescue vehicles.
Investigators are alleging that a Queens teacher tried to bribe students with better grades in exchange for supportive testimony at a disciplinary hearing.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says the 35-year-old employee has worked with the agency since 2007.
Ice Breakers member Bob Stewart says the unusually warm, roughly 50-degree air made it "almost like a summer day" by their standards.
Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad students next semester. An Occupy Wall Street class will send students into the field and will be taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, a veteran of the occupy movement.
Police arrested the driver at the scene and transported him to Elmhurst Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.
State police say 22-year-old Akeem Coon was driving on a southbound stretch of the highway in Edison Township when he attempted to pass another vehicle and apparently lost control of the car.
Prosecutors say a southern New Jersey man stabbed a woman with a knife and then used it to stab himself.
Authorities say a college student from China was arrested trying to carry a combination stun gun and flashlight onto a plane in New York City.
