ACS Sees First Prosecution Of Case Workers In NYC
Former workers Chereece Bell and Damon Adams were charged with criminally negligent homicide.
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Former workers Chereece Bell and Damon Adams were charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Months after a Brooklyn mother (pictured) was indicted in the death of her emaciated 4-year-old daughter two former child welfare workers have been charged with criminally negligent homicide and official misconduct.
The first building to be selected for the $20 million pilot Housing Asset Renewal Program started going up in 2007 but stopped a year later when the developer fell behind on payments.
Police said 19-year-old Kysheen Oliver was charged with assault. They said he was the boyfriend of Teyuana Cummings, who left her son in his care while she took her two older children to school.
Pascal Abidor, an Islamic studies doctoral student at McGill University in Montreal, fears the U.S. government will forever have its eye on him.
Authorities are investigating whether a 17-month-old boy found unconscious at his Brooklyn foster home was beaten.
17-month-old boy was taken to Brookdale University Hospital. He was said to be suffering from internal and external injuries -- some old enough to suggest a pattern of abuse.
Police are looking for the group of teenagers who brutally attacked a man walking on Wyeth Avenue in Brooklyn on Feb. 22.
Police are searching for a suspect in connection with an attempted rape in Brooklyn.
Maksim Gelman, accused of killing four people and wounding four others in a 28-hour rampage last month, told police he had cancer, lamented his family life and said he wished police had shot him.
The NY State Department of Correctional Services says Ophadell Williams, 40, was convicted of manslaughter for his role in a 1990 stabbing and served just over two years.
The fire department said 56-year-old Chiu Tsang was arrested on charges of arson after they reviewed video surveillance tapes of the fire.
Passengers and witnesses told investigators that the driver's account of getting clipped by a tractor-trailer didn't match up to what they felt and saw.
Thirty one people are injured—four of the m critically—after a fire ripped through an apartment building in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn on Sunday morning.
Some St. Patrick's Day celebrations are starting as early as this weekend in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
What's for lunch? The best fish sandwich in Brooklyn or a steaming hot bowl of noodle soup.
Police are asking for the public's help in finding a suspect in connection with an attempted sexual assault in Brooklyn
According to a new NYPD report, there was an alarming 31 percent homicide rate increase among blacks in 2010 with 42 percent of the overall killings occurring in Brooklyn.
Nestled away in the quasi-industrial 3rd Avenue of Gowanus/Park Slope, Draft Barn is an experience for serious beer lovers.
At a brief court hearing, a Brooklyn judge scheduled jury selection for Sept. 12 in the case against Pedro Espada Jr. and his son, Pedro G. Espada.
Longtime federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein walked around the Louis Armstrong Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant -- the same streets where authorities say armed thugs once terrorized residents with an "open-air drug bazaar."
Police said a smooth-talking criminal is pretending to be an exterminator, conning his victims into inviting him into their apartments before robbing them.
Police have released a sketch of a sexual predator who has been stalking his victims in Bay Ridge.
A former New York state Senate Democratic leader and his son are due at a pre-trial hearing in New York City.
New York City firefighters say a 5-alarm fire in a two-story building that housed a church downstairs tore through three other buildings in Brooklyn.
