Suspect Fatally Shot By Jersey City Police Officer
Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said Officer Luis Mecka was responding to reports of shots fired when he saw 28-year-old Deron Kittrell, who appeared to have a gun.
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Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said Officer Luis Mecka was responding to reports of shots fired when he saw 28-year-old Deron Kittrell, who appeared to have a gun.
A jet that took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday crashed and broke in two early Saturday morning while trying to land in Guyana with 163 people on board.
It happened Friday at the Gouverneur Playground in Claremont. According to published reports, the 4-year-old girl was bitten on her face as she tried to pet the dog.
A small memorial sits in front of 14 Maujer Street in Williamsburg in memory of 52-year-old Miguel Vargas.
The FBI says a bank robbery suspect dubbed by investigators as the "One Glove Bandit" robbed a bank for the third time in New York City on Friday.
Executives from the country's biggest banks met with U.S. Treasury officials Friday to discuss how debt auctions will be handled if Congress fails to raise the borrowing limit before Tuesday's deadline.
Fire crews battled a fire on Columbia and Green Street. Officials say flames broke out just before 3:30 Saturday.
Officers say the victim was walking on Mastic Road in Mastic Beach when she was struck Thursday night. The impact threw her body against a curb. The driver fled the scene without so much as slowing down.
Ossining, in Westchester County, was among the hardest hit by Friday's weather. Residents said patio furniture went flying and some lost shingles off their roofs.
Young Adonte Peartree and his mother, Maritza Santanam, stepped out of a bodega on Astor Avenue Thursday night and into a hail of bullets around 10 p.m.
Authorities are passing out flyers to local businesses, reminding people that when they use a cell phone on the street, they make themselves a prime target.
The so-called "ring of steel" is nearing completion in lower Manhattan. It's a network of security measures intended to counter-terrorism and fight crime. CBS 2 got a rare look inside the nerve center on Friday.
They were stuck with the bill. There was and frustration Friday for some Staten Island homeowners who say the city damaged their sidewalks, then made them pay to fix it.
In what seems to be a rash of attacks against wildlife in Suffolk County, officials say two more seagulls have been injured, one from an arrow and another from a blow dart.
The program is voluntary. So it's up to parents whether to sign their kids up and the students will know if they've been enrolled.
