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Cops busted a Clinton Hill crack and marijuana ring and nabbed 11 individuals suspected of selling drugs on the street, from an apartment building at the corner Putnam and Grand Avenue avenues, and out of a barbershop and [...]
Former Acting State Police Superintendent Preston Felton, one of two cases remaining from the Spitzer-Bruno battle over helicopter flights and accusations of political espionage, has settled with the state on Commission on Public Integrity.
He admits to violating public officers law in the affair, in which he gave in to [...]
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The myth that U.S. roads "pay for themselves" thanks to user fees is a subject that's likely familiar to many Streetsblog readers -- but just how much of the nation's highway funding is provided by charging drivers?
The answer may surprise [...]
One of the undercover cops involved in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old who was pointing a gun at officers fired eight rounds, according to the Post. Three officers contributed to the 15-bullet salvo (up from 14 in yesterday's' [...]
Earlier this year, the conservation department at the Whitney Museum of American Art was given the task of preparing Claes Oldenburg’s Ice Bag-Scale C for exhibition in a retrospective. The work, a massive, fan-powered contraption 12 feet in diameter made of nylon cloth and polyester resin, was first [...]
(Edward Reed) Two men who allegedly operated a Florida-to-New York gun trafficking ring were indicted today after selling more than 40 guns to undercover cops, worth more than $40,000. The 105-count indictment charges Watson Joachin, 27, and Ryan Woodard, 22, with selling weapons [...]
Sarah Palin came and went - didn’t get a signed copy of her book? Check ebay. If you read this piece you will see why lots of people turned out. However, there were at least a hundred who wanted to reinforce the notion that Ms Palin didn’t speak [...]
Police shot an 18-year-old 11 times when he pointed a gun at them after a chase in Far Rockaway late on Saturday. Officers fired 14 shots in total, striking and killing Dashawn Vasconcellos after he ran away from cops who tried to question him [...]
Long Island cops are using an $800,000 acoustic gunshot tracking system that allows officers to almost immediately pinpoint the locations of shootings from a data center miles away. The so-called ShotSpotter system transmits the sound of gunfire using microphones and wireless sensors to a [...]
Last night police found a group of young men leaving Bayswater Park in Rockaway around 11:30 p.m., and desired a word with them. The cops report that one of the men, Dashawn Vasconcellos, 18, ran ...
Continue reading "Teen Shot Dead by Cops Outside Queens Park" [...]
Police gunned down an 18-year-old in Far Rockaway when he pointed a 9mm handgun at officers. When four plainclothes cops approached Dashawn Vasconcellos and two other men as they were leaving Bayswater Park after-hours at around 11:30 pm, Vasconcellos fled. Officers pursued [...]
The off-duty NYPD cop who shot a man following a Long Island bar brawl fired the round after the altercation was over, according to the lawyer representing victim Atiba Watkins. The fight that lead to the shooting started [...]
A Queens father is suspected of slitting the throats of his wife and son, then blaming the act on his alternate identity, according to cops. "Otto does not do these things, but Robert does," Otto Herrarte, 48, told investigators, according to [...]
A knife-wielding commuter stabbed a passenger to death on the D train early this morning in a fight over a seat. Cops arrested a 37-year-old man suspected of repeatedly stabbing a 36-year-old man in the neck and face when the victim refused [...]
A 16-year-old Stuyvesant High School student was caught on camera setting two fires in school bathrooms this week, according to police. Cops arrested junior Mohammed Hassan after obtaining surveillance tapes that apparently show the teen entering a seventh-floor bathroom at 1:13 [...]
An off-duty New York City cop shot a knife-wielding man Thursday night after a bar brawl that started in the Strong Island watering-hole Napper Tandy's and spilled out into the street. John Gomez, 27, was one of the many witnesses in the crowded bar at [...]
Last night around nine a guy pulled his red Pontiac Grand Prix out of the Sunoco station in Englewood Cliffs and headed onto the George Washington Bridge. As he had failed to yield to traffic, a p...
Continue reading "Man Evades Cops, Jumps Off George Washington" [...]A few days ago we noticed councilmember Jessica Lappin has a bill going that would require NYPD to "report on complaints of harassment in the transit system." Looks like things are going her way:...
Continue reading "Cops, MTA Meet Council on Subway Sex Harassers; Cell Phones," [...]
Lisa Gibbs's mug shot "We got into a fight about him cheating on me. I cut him with a box cutter, and he punched me in the face," 41-year-old Lisa Gibbs told cops after she was arrested Oct. 30th. "I punched her in" [...]
Yesterday we reported on the controversy brought up by what some are calling a "sexist" cover of Sarah Palin on the current issue of Newsweek. The issue featured a picture of the former governor wearing athletic shorts, taken from an old copy of [...]
WCBS 880 reports, " Police say a man who drove his car into a cyclist in New Jersey was sending a text message about a drug deal." Apparently Robert Sharrer, 28, admitted to cops that he was texting when he hit a cyclist wearing [...]
