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A 23-year-old driver faces a long list of charges after he abandoned a woman in the passenger seat of a burning car he crashed and left the scene in a cab. The stupefying incident happened on Friday, Oct. 13, around 4 a.m. on the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn, New York. The driver, Saeed Ahmed, lost […] -
Prosecutors in New York City have secured a conviction for a drug kingpin from the Bronx who used his family as collateral in drug deals. Jose “Hippie” Mercedes will serve 14 years in state prison followed by five years post release supervision for possessing over 150 pounds of heroin, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration […] -
Three people were killed and at least 16 injured when a New York City transit bus and a tour bus collided early on Monday in the city’s borough of Queens, spinning around before slamming into a building, fire officials said. Firefighters pulled passengers from the wreckage after the city bus collided with a Dahlia tour […] -
Police are investigating the death of a Louisiana State University (LSU) freshman as a possible hazing incident after the 18-year-old was taken to the hospital Thursday morning, Sept. 14, and later pronounced dead. Few details about the death of Maxwell Gruver from Roswell, Georgia, were available Friday morning, but school officials confirmed that the incident is being investigated […] -
A man’s body wrapped in a blue tarp with a cinder block tied to its legs was found by a passerby in the Mill Basin inlet in Brooklyn on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 2. The body, yet to be identified, showed signs of blunt force trauma to the head, and his death was ruled as […] -
A mother of three died at a hospital on Tuesday after she was discovered unconscious with rosary beads stuffed down her throat. Police had arrested her boyfriend earlier in the day after he was seen walking outside naked, screaming about the devil and mumbling about her “being with God now,” according to 1010WINS. The woman was […] -
Five days after a woman in Fargo, North Dakota, disappeared from a neighbor’s apartment, a newborn child was found in the apartment. Savanna Lafontaine-Greywind, 22, was eight months pregnant with her and her boyfriend’s first child, a baby girl, when she went missing on Saturday, Aug. 19. LaFontaine-Greywind’s mother, Norberta LaFontaine-Greywind, who lived with her daughter, […]
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A family in Syracuse is mourning the loss of their 8-year-old boy, who loved to dance, do backflips, and planned to grow up to be a ninja. “He wanted to become a ninja so he could protect Daddy,” said the boy’s father, Jermaine Moore, as he recalled the memories of his son while sitting in front of […] -
A suburban New York school district will reassign two football coaches in connection to the death of a 16-year-old football player during a pre-season practice on Aug. 10. The Sachem School District superintendent said that the Sachem East High School football coach and a member of the coaching staff will be reassigned pending the outcome of […] -
An 11-year-old girl who was allegedly burned with boiling water in a prank by a friend at a sleepover party earlier this month is making a fantastic recovery, according to her mother. Jamoneisha Merritt went to a sleepover party with some friends. She ended up in the emergency room after being awoken by a pot of scalding […] -
A Florida man shot at three teens after waking up in the early morning and finding them robbing his cars. The Panama City, Florida homeowner, who’s name has not been revealed by police, awoke on the morning of Aug. 13 to see the three teens going through his two cars, after his wife told him […] -
Howard Pilmar’s successful business career was cut short in 1996 when he was found stabbed 27 times in a hallway near his office in Midtown Manhattan. The brutality of the attack, the fact that the building wasn’t breached by force, and that his wallet wasn’t taken, led investigators to suspect someone close to the 40-year-old […]
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A 54-year-old woman was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Sunday, Aug. 13, just a quarter mile from where her brother was killed by a hit-and-run driver two years ago. If the eerily similar deaths weren’t enough, the pair’s sister-in-law was struck by a car in the same town this May,the New York Post reported. Pauline […] -
A father in New York City has died from what his family called a broken heart following the fatal shooting of his son. Duro Akil was shot in the chest on Monday night, Aug. 7, and rushed to Jacobi Medical Center with a punctured lung. When the family learned that Akil had died on Wednesday, […] -
A man classified as an Emotionally Disturbed Person (EDP) by police shot at a police officer who was called to his home by the man’s mother. Two of the bullets from a rifle hit 30-year-old New York City police officer Hart Nguyen in the chest, and one hit him in the arm. He did not […] -
A baby girl, 11 months old, was held hostage and shot by her father, before he ended his own life following three hours of negotiations with a SWAT unit parked outside his home. The incident occurred in a home in south Forsyth County, Georgia, on Monday afternoon, Aug. 7. The SWAT unit attempted to negotiate […] -
An 11-year-old girl who had boiling water dumped on her was sent to the hospital Monday morning for her burns, NY1 reported. Jamoneisha Merritt had burns on her face, chest, shoulders, and neck after friends she was having a sleepover with woke her up by pouring boiling water on her. Merritt’s mother, Ebony, said her daughter […] -
An inmate at a prison in Auburn, New York, says he was asked to repair locks at the facility before he tried to escape in a pile of sawdust in 2015. Gordon “Woody” Mower said he was tasked with fixing locks at Auburn correctional facility after the facility’s locksmith retired in 2014. “We’re not supposed […] -
A man was seriously injured after jumping from a third floor balcony of the Oculus at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub Tuesday, Aug. 1, in the afternoon. Surveillance video of the incident shows the man crouching before he jumps over the rail in what appears to be a suicide attempt, the New York Post […] -
A 72-year-old landlord was set aflame by an exploding package on Friday, July 29. The package burst in front of a house the man rented to two families on 222nd Street in the Springfield Gardens neighborhood, ABC 7 reported. “I saw a man lying in the grass he was actually on his knees and he […]
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President Donald Trump called on Congress Friday to provide additional funding to America’s law and immigration enforcement agencies fighting a brutal wave of gang crime connected to illegal border crossings. Trump stressed the need for hundreds of additional immigration prosecutors and judges, since current laws require a court proceeding for a deportation to be executed. He […] -
A family in Oklahoma has uncovered a crime scene in their backyard. They found a 2003 Chevy Trailblazer that was mysteriously wrapped in plastic tarp and buried about 6 feet underground. For years, the family had been driving their all-terrain vehicles (ATV) and motocross bikes over the carefully hidden car, which had been right under their […] -
A well known barber was shot and killed in the driver’s seat of his BMW at around midnight on Monday in Queens, ABC7 reported. A gunman shot 32-year-old Zanu Simpson in the head at South Conduit and Lansing Avenue in Laurelton. Simpson was pronounced dead at Jamaica hospital. Police were searching for the perpetrator early on Tuesday. Simpson was well […] -
A man in Connecticut has been sentenced to 120 days behind bars for an altercation with his girlfriend during which he sliced their pet fighting fish in half. Juan Vega, 33, was arrested on the evening of April 27, after the police received a call reporting disturbance in the neighbourhood. According to the incident report, Vega […] -
A rare 100-pound tortoise stolen from a Queens environmental center has been recovered by police. The tortoise was stolen from the Alley Pond Environmental Center on July 17. A person who purchased the tortoise called police, thinking it could have been stolen. The 111th precinct recovered the reptile and brought it back to the station […] -
A woman facing trial for the murder of her fiancé two years ago abruptly pleaded guilty to the charges on Monday, July 24. Angelika Graswald, a Latvian national, was charged for intentionally removing a drain plug from her fiancé Vincent Viafore’s kayak and pushing a floating paddle away from him before watching him drown at […] -
An 8-year-old girl, Nevaeh Blaine, has been confirmed safe after disappearing for 13 hours on Sunday, July 16. Blaine, whose first name is “heaven” spelt backward, was reported missing by her mother at 9:45 a.m. and found around 11 p.m. Newark police spent the day frantically searching on the ground and eventually from the air. […]
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