Crime

Elzina Brown became the first murder victim of 2013 after she tried to protect her 22-year-old daughter during a domestic dispute at her home in the Bronx on Thursday, the New York Daily News reports. Brown, 59, was home during her lunch break around 1:30 p.m. when her daughter, Diamond Dunn, and her boyfriend, Raymond […]

Aston Barth (pictured) was charged with second-degree murder after allegedly admitting to police that he strangled his friend and neighbor Jason Campbell, 35, after a heated confrontation, according to the New York Daily News. The 33-year-old then went on to tell police that he got hold of an axe and made several attempts to chop […]

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The holiday season is one of the best times of the year to visit New York City, which explains why corners are teeming with pedestrians, the streets are flooded with taxis, and it’s impossible for residents to get reservations at their favorite dining spots. If you are traveling to New York City during the holidays, […]

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The Brooklyn DA’s Office will hire an independent expert to reconstruct the death of a Black man struck by a police car that was chasing him. It is a new development that raises doubts about the NYPD’s version of events that lead to 27-year-old Tamon Robinson‘s (pictured) death last April. The New York Daily News […]

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Hurricane Sandy‘s deadly mix of heavy rains, winds and floodwaters proved fatal for at least 19 New Yorkers in her wake. They included an off-duty officer who drowned saving his family from rising water levels, a woman who stepped on a live wire and a 13-year old girl found under debris in her home, according […]

Gilberto Valle (pictured), a New York City cop with six years on the force, planned to kidnap, torture, cook and eat more than 100 women, the New York Daily News reports. The FBI intercepted his plans through multiple internet discussions he had with a co-conspirator that date back to early this year. Valle even went […]

Crime

In a blatant act of pure perversion, an unidentified man was caught on camera putting his hand up the legs of a sleeping woman on a New York City subway train, Gothamist reports. Click on the link above to go to the video Jasheem Smiley says he boarded the southbound 4-train at 116th Street and […]

A man accused of stealing at a Brooklyn, N.Y., 7-Eleven was restrained so aggressively by store employees that his clothing was pulled off his body during the struggle, the Gothamist reports. Scroll down for video Video of the struggle between the man and three employees was recorded and originally uploaded to WorldStarHipHop. It has not […]

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A bulky Queens, New York gym teacher is claiming that he was violently attacked by a 6-year-old 1st-grader back in April, the New York Post reports. SEE ALSO: TLC’s T-Boz Lands Reality Show John Webster told The Post that 6-year-old Rodrigo Carpio “fractured his ankle, injured his knee and forced him to go to a […]

Crime

The New York pizza boy charged with raping a woman during a deliver has reportedly confessed to the crime, according to the New York Daily News. Cops say that Cesar Lucas (pictured above), 16, raped the woman while her 7-year-old daughter slept beside her. He allegedly said “that he went in because he was feeling […]

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Anthony Angel Cintron (pictured) allegedly robbed a teen on a Manhattan subway Friday morning using a hypodermic needle as his weapon, the New York Daily News reports. Cintron reportedly spotted the 14-year-old boy on a northbound 1 train around 8:30 a.m. near the W. 86th St. station. He began talking with the teen before flashing […]

Crime

A 16-year-old Bronx boy has been arrested after cops say the teen raped a woman while he was delivering a pizza to her building on Saturday morning, the New York Daily News reports. Cesar Lucas was delivering a pizza to a tenth-floor apartment at the victim’s building just blocks away from New York Sal’s Pizza […]