Brooklyn Bus Accident Leaves 41 Injured
The accident happened at 4:40 p.m. at Albany Avenue and Herkimer Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of the borough, authorities said.
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The accident happened at 4:40 p.m. at Albany Avenue and Herkimer Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of the borough, authorities said.
Police said 43-year-old Yvette Randolph set flames to part of her ex-boyfriend's apartment building on Chauncey Street, trapping and injuring 12 people, including children.
Eleven people were trapped inside and injured, including some children. Four people - none of them children - are in critical condition due to smoke inhalation.
The officer was rushed to Kings County Hospital with a gunshot wound to the kneecap.
"When I said I don't have any money, he put the gun more in my face and said, 'If you don't give it to me, I'll kill you in front of these kids,'" the victim said.
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Violence in the overnight hours left at least four people dead and several others injured throughout the city.
Employees of the Bedford-Stuyvesant medical center who were given pink slips on Wednesday were out protesting in front of the hospital on Thursday.
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Officers arrived around 4:05 a.m. Saturday to the scene of a shooting in front of 1198 Fulton St. in Brooklyn, police said.
Police said the suspect came up behind 34-year-old Dru Barnes and struck him numerous times in the face and neck with a hammer on Jefferson Avenue before fleeing the scene last Thursday.
Mario Lopez, 18, of Brooklyn was found dead at the scene of the shooting on Marcy Avenue, in front of the Marcy Houses with gunshot wounds to his torso.
According to police, the suspect shot at the shop located at 429 Columbia Street around 10:45 p.m. before taking off in an unknown direction.
The SUV tore through a white wrought iron fence and punched a small hole in the corner of the building.
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A father's heartbreak at a shooting that gravely wounded his daughter was compounded Sunday evening, by a cruel reaction attributed to the teenage boy charged in the shooting.
A 17-year-old boy was in police custody Saturday morning, facing an attempted murder charge in the shooting of a child six years younger in Brooklyn.
The girl was standing on the corner of Gates and Throop avenues in Bed-Stuy at around 8:30 p.m., when she was apparently struck by a bullet shortly after a fight broke out, police said.
Police this week arrested two Brooklyn men after finding firearms and stashes of heroin and crack cocaine in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment.
An investigation continued this weekend after someone fired shots at officers conducting a search in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
An employee was shot in the shoulder Monday during a robbery in broad daylight at a grocery store in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
Two Brooklyn families were left homeless Sunday night, after a fire broke out at a row house in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section.
Five men were wounded in three different shootings in Brooklyn on Saturday, according to authorities.
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Fire departments were hard at work in Paterson, New Jersey, and Fairfield County, Connecticut, due to flash flooding on Sunday morning.
Rainy weather makes a return to the New York City area this weekend.
After a week filled with periods of storminess and high humidity, a calmer and drier weather pattern is settling in for the holiday weekend.
Severe storms returned to the Tri-State Area, making it a soggy Thursday morning.
The rain returns Tuesday with the possibility of severe storms and downpours that can cause flash flooding in the New York City area.
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Fire departments were hard at work in Paterson, New Jersey, and Fairfield County, Connecticut, due to flash flooding on Sunday morning.
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Rainy weather makes a return to the New York City area this weekend.
The New York State Board of Regents has approved a plan to begin overhauling high school graduation requirements.
There are calls to widen Sunrise Highway, one of Long Island's most traveled thoroughfares, due to congestion in one 10-mile stretch in Suffolk County.
Also known as New York State Route 27, Sunrise Highway has become so congested in one 10-mile stretch in Suffolk County, officials and first responders say it needs another lane in both directions. CBS News New York's Carolyn Gusoff reports.
A school bus company says it has disciplined a driver after she dropped a 5-year-old off at the wrong bus stop on Long Island last week.
A school bus company says it has disciplined a driver after she dropped a 5-year-old off at the wrong bus stop on Long Island last week. CBS News New York's Carolyn Gusoff reports.
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Pete Alonso went hitless in his return to Citi Field but Gunnar Henderson launched a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning Monday night that lifted the Orioles to a 2-1 win over the Mets.
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